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Document page decomposition using bounding boxes of connected components of black pixels

Ha et al., 1995

Document ID
8073570347799048555
Author
Ha J
Phillips I
Haralick R
Publication year
Publication venue
Document Recognition II

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Segmentation of document images can be performed by projecting image pixels. This pixel projection approach is one of widely used top-down segmentation methods and is based on the assumption that the document image has been correctly deskewed. Unfortunately, the …
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