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OCR Technologies for Machine Printed and Hand Printed Japanese Text

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Kimura, F. (2007). OCR Technologies for Machine Printed and Hand Printed Japanese Text. In: Chaudhuri, B.B. (eds) Digital Document Processing. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-726-8_3

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