The push toward voting via hand-marked paper ballots has focused attention on the limitations of current optical scan systems. Discrepancies between human and machine interpretati...
Pingping Xiu, Daniel P. Lopresti, Henry S. Baird, ...
The separation of Chinese character and English character is helpful for OCR technique. In this paper, a multi-level cascade classifier combined with feature selection is construc...
Yuanping Zhu, Jun Sun 0004, Akihiro Minagawa, Yosh...
Handwritten document images contain textlines with multi orientations, touching and overlapping characters within consecutive textlines, and small inter-line spacing making textli...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
Page segmentation into text and non-text components is an essential preprocessing step before OCR operation. If this is not done properly, an OCR classification engine produces g...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
The paper presents a method for efficient text detection in unconstrained environments, based on image features derived from connected components and on a classification architect...