Title :
Separation of overlapping characters
Author :
Papamarkos, N. ; Koutalianos, T.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Democritus Univ. of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece
Abstract :
The segmentation process is an important step in optical character recognition systems. The final goal of segmentation is to separate properly the characters. This paper proposes a new powerful method for separation of vertical overlapping characters. The proposed technique is effective and fast. Its performance is described by experimental examples in the paper
Keywords :
document image processing; image segmentation; optical character recognition; optical character recognition systems; segmentation process; separation; vertical overlapping characters; Character recognition; Computational efficiency; Costs; Image segmentation; Optical character recognition software; Separation processes; Smoothing methods;
Conference_Titel :
Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1999. Proceedings of ICECS '99. The 6th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Pafos
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5682-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICECS.1999.813246
