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ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Learning on the Fly: Font-Free Approaches to Difficult OCR Problems
Despite ubiquitous claims that optical character recognition (OCR) is a "solved problem," many categories of documents continue to break modern OCR software such as docu...
Andrew Kae, Erik G. Learned-Miller
ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
Font retrieval on a large scale: An experimental study
This paper addresses the problem of font retrieval using a query-by-example paradigm: given a font, retrieve the the most visually similar fonts. We describe a font by (a) renderi...
Saurabh Kataria, Luca Marchesotti, Florent Perronn...
DOCENG
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Next generation typeface representations: revisiting parametric fonts
Outline font technology has long been established as the standard way to represent typefaces, allowing characters to be represented independently of print size and resolution. Alt...
Tamir Hassan, Changyuan Hu, Roger D. Hersch
ICDAR
1999
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Multifont Classification using Typographical Attributes
This paper introduces a multifont classification scheme to help recognition of multifont and multisize characters. It uses typographical attributes such as ascenders, descenders a...
Min-Chul Jung, Yong-Chul Shin, Sargur N. Srihari
DDEP
2000
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Perceptually-Tuned Grayscale Characters Based on Parametrisable Component Fonts
Abstract. Our component-based parametrisable font system is a newly developed font description and reproduction technology. It incorporates for each basic character shape a softwar...
Changyuan Hu, Roger D. Hersch