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Script and language identification for handwritten document images

Hochberg et al., 1999

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7331346980202834991
Author
Hochberg J
Bowers K
Cannon M
Kelly P
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International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

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A system for automatically identifying the script used in a handwritten document image is described. The system was developed using a 496-document dataset representing six scripts, eight languages, and 279 writers. Documents were characterized by the mean …
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