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A scale space approach for automatically segmenting words from historical handwritten documents

Manmatha et al., 2005

Document ID
11448162827730007580
Author
Manmatha R
Rothfeder J
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

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Many libraries, museums, and other organizations contain large collections of handwritten historical documents, for example, the papers of early presidents like George Washington at the Library of Congress. The first step in providing recognition/retrieval tools is to …
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