Presentation 1997/3/19
Font Identification of Japanese Printed Characters
Yasushi ABE,
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Abstract(in English) An algorithm is presented that identifies the font typeface of printed Japanese characters.Typeface can help in understanding the structure of a document,for example,gothic font sometimes lend emphasis.The system presented in this paper uses many features including pixel density,vertical run1ength histogram,stroke thickness,extracting serif and so on and classifies Mincho and Gothic font.Experimental results ShoWs high accuracy achieved on a database of many document images.
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Keyword(in English) Font identification / Japanese printed character / OCR / Document recognition / Layout analysis
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Conference Date 1997/3/19(1days)
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Title (in English) Font Identification of Japanese Printed Characters
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Keyword(1) Font identification
Keyword(2) Japanese printed character
Keyword(3) OCR
Keyword(4) Document recognition
Keyword(5) Layout analysis
1st Author's Name Yasushi ABE
1st Author's Affiliation Information and Communication Research and Development Center, Ricoh Co., Ltd.()
Date 1997/3/19
Paper # PRMU96-208
Volume (vol) vol.96
Number (no) 599
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 8
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