—In this paper, we present a novel approach to search and retrieve from document image collections, without explicit recognition. Existing recognition-free approaches such as wor...
The implementation of word spotting is not an easy procedure and it gets even worse in the case of historical documents since it requires character recognition and indexing of the...
Edit distance matching has been used in literature for word spotting with characters taken as primitives. The recognition rate however, is limited by the segmentation inconsistenci...
—Content-based document image retrieval is a new and promising research area. Without OCR, document indexing directly based on image content is more general and convenient. Howev...
With large databases of document images available, a method for users to find keywords in documents will be useful. One approach is to perform Optical Character Recognition (OCR) ...