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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2011
IEEE
—To cope with the tremendous variations of writing styles encountered between different individuals, unconstrained automatic handwriting recognition systems need to be trained on...
195
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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2011
IEEE
—We propose a new method for an effective removal of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a widely...
197
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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2011
IEEE
—The italic detection and slant rectification is a key step of optical character recognition (OCR). In this paper, a novel method is proposed to detect and rectify italic charact...
170
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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2011
IEEE
—Recognition of document images having Greek polytonic (multi accent) characters is a challenging task due the large number of existing character classes (more than 270). In this...
226
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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2011
IEEE
Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...