Global gray-level thresholding techniques such as Otsu’s method, and local gray-level thresholding techniques such as adaptive thresholding method are powerful in extracting cha...
Given the large number and complexity of Chinese characters, pattern matching based on structural decomposition and analysis is believed to be necessary and essential to off-line ...
—Captions in videos play a significant role for automatically understanding and indexing video content, since much semantic information is associated with them. This paper presen...
The sipping of ink through the pages of certain double-sided handwritten documents after long periods of storage poses a serious problem to human readers or OCR systems. This pape...
There is a significant need to extract and analyse the text in images on Web documents, for effective indexing, semantic analysis and even presentation by non-visual means (e.g....