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Digital Document Processing pp 49–71Cite as

OCR Technologies for Machine Printed and Hand Printed Japanese Text

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  • Character Segmentation
  • Chain Code
  • Chinese Character Recognition
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  1. Faculty of Engineering, Mie University, 514-8507, Tsu, Japan

    Fumitaka Kimura

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  1. Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

    Bidyut B. Chaudhuri PhD

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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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