High-speed, high-accuracy binarization method for recognizing text in images of low spatial resolutions

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 139-142

  Kamada, Hiroshi ^a   Fujimoto, Katsuhito ^a  

^a FUJITSU LABORATORIES LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INTERPOLATION;

BACKGROUND PIXELS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; GLOBAL BINARIZATION; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; IMAGE INTERPOLATIONS; PENTIUM PROCESSORS; PROCESSING TIME; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 85013898858     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791744     Document Type: Conference Paper

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