One of the most difficult project but very useful. If you can make software which can read text from images then it will be very useful to be used in robots eyes or making a machine who can read books and newspaper for us.
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What is OCR ?
OCR Handwriting
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Text information in Images ( PDF File 1.5 MB approx.)
Image Parsing to Text Description
Multiscale Edge based text extraction from complex Images
Text Segmentation from Images
A Density-based Approach for Text Extraction in Images
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