Correcting Broken Characters in the Recognition of Historical Printed Documents

This paper presents a new technique for dealing with broken characters, one of the major challenges in the optical character recognition (OCR) of degraded historical printed documents. A technique based on graph combinatorics is used to rejoin the appropriate connected components. It has been applied to real data with successful results.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: JCDL
• Authors: Michael Droettboom
• Keywords: Appropriate Connected Components, Historical Printed Documents, JCDL 2003, Optical Character Recognition