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Layout analysis of Urdu document images

Shafait et al., 2006

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4418350560105233396
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Shafait F
Keysers D
Breuel T
et al.
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2006 IEEE International Multitopic Conference

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Layout analysis is a key component of an OCR system. In this paper, we present a layout analysis system for extracting text-lines in reading order from Urdu document images. For this purpose, we evaluate an existing system for Roman script text on Urdu documents and …
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