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General word recognition using approximate segment-string matching

Favata, 1997

Document ID
13295882619612060937
Author
Favata J
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

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Focuses on the problem of isolated off-line general word recognition using an approximate stroke-segment/string matching algorithm. Several recently proposed word recognition algorithms use the strategy of directly matching the stroke segments (with OCR estimates) to …
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