A Novel Character Segmentation Method for Text Images Captured by Cameras |
Lue, Hsin-Te
(Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University)
Wen, Ming-Gang (Department of Information Management, National United University) Cheng, Hsu-Yung (Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University) Fan, Kuo-Chin (Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University) Lin, Chih-Wei (Institute of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University) Yu, Chih-Chang (Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Vanung University) |
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