Guide to OCR for indic scripts: document recognition and retrieval

This unique guide/reference is the very first comprehensive book on the subject of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) for Indic scripts. Features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; discusses data set creation for OCR development; describes OCR systems that cover 8 different scripts – Bangla, Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, and Urdu (Perso-Arabic); explores the challenges of Indic script handwriting recognition in the online domain; examines the development of handwriting-based text input systems; describes ongoing work to increase access to Indian cultural heritage materials; provides a section on the enhancement of text and images obtained from historical Indic palm leaf manuscripts; investigates different techniques for word spotting in Indic scripts; reviews mono-lingual and cross-lingual information retrieval in Indic languages. This is an excellent referencefor researchers and graduate students studying OCR technology and methodologies. INDICE: Part I: Recognition of Indic Scripts.- Building Data Sets for Indian Language OCR Research.- On OCR of Major Indian Scripts: Bangla and Devanagari.- A Complete Machine Printed Gurmukhi OCR System.- Progress in Gujarati Document Processing and Character Recognition.- Design of a Bilingual Kannada-English OCR.- Recognition of Malayalam Documents.- A Complete OCR System for Tamil Magazine Documents.- Experiments on Urdu Text Recognition.- The BBN Byblos Hindi OCR System.- Generalization of Hindi OCR using Adaptive Segmentation and Font Files.- Online Handwriting Recognition for Indic Scripts.- Part II: Retrieval of Indic Documents.- Enhancing Access to Primary Cultural Heritage Materials of India.- Digital Image Enhancement of Indic Historical Manuscripts.- GFGbased Compression and Retrieval of Document Images in Indian Scripts.- Word spotting for Indic documents to facilitate retrieval.- Indian Language Information Retrieval.

• ISBN: 978-1-84800-329-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 318
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés