—In order to spot the digits in a handwritten document, each component is sent to a classifier. This is a time consuming process because a document usually contains several hundr...
Nicola Nobile, Chun Lei He, Malik Waqas Sagheer, L...
—Reading text from photographs is a challenging problem that has received a signicant amount of attention. Two key components of most systems are (i) text detection from images a...
Adam Coates, Blake Carpenter, Carl Case, Sanjeev S...
Abstract—In offline handwritten text recognition, the separation of touching characters remains a challenge due to the variability of touching structures. This paper proposes a ...
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...
— This paper describes a Markov random field (MRF) model with weighting parameters optimized by conditional random field (CRF) for on-line recognition of handwritten Japanese cha...