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Detection and location of multicharacter sequences in lines of imaged text

Chen et al., 1996

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5216599415505125554
Author
Chen F
Bloomberg D
Wilcox L
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Journal of Electronic Imaging

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A system for detecting and locating user-specified search strings, or phrases, in lines of imaged text is described. The phrases may be single words or multiple words, and may contain a partially specified word. The imaged text can be composed of a number of different …
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