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Automatic Thai and English fonts identification without character recognition
Author(s)
Kruatrachue, B.
Piyatrakul, P.
Date Issued
January 1, 2001
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper describes a simple and fast algorithm to detect Thai and English characters in a document without doing actual characters recognition. The document is segmented into strings of letters separated by a blank, then each string is identified using characters features and their writing positions. This method achieves 100% accuracy if the characters have clear head feature. But if this feature is not used 90% of the strings still can be identified. This identification provides more information about the character set so that OCR can recognize faster with better accuracy.
Citation
IEEE Pacific RIM Conference on Communications Computers and Signal Processing Proceedings, II, 603-606, 2001