A visual and interactive tool for optimizing lexical postcorrection of OCR results

IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 25-32

  Strohmaier, Christian ^a   Ringlstetter, Christoph ^b   Schulz, Klaus U ^b   Mihov, Stoyan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

ACTIVE SUPPORTS; APPROPRIATE DISTANCES; CORRECTION MODELS; FINE TUNING; GROUND TRUTH DATA; HIGH-ACCURACY; INTERACTIVE TOOL; SCORING FUNCTIONS;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 84954421084     PISSN: 21607508     EISSN: 21607516     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2003.10031     Document Type: Conference Paper

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