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NIST Special Database 20. NIST Scientific and Technical Document Database

Published

Author(s)

Patrick J. Grother

Abstract

The images in this database contain a very rich set of graphic elements such as graphs, tables, equations, two column text, maps, pictures, footnotes, annotations, and arrays of such elements. No ground truthing or original typesetting information is available.The images contain predominantly machine printed English, although three French and German documents are included.Major features of the database include:- 104 articles, books, journals- 23,468 full-page binary images- high resolution 15.75 dots per mm (400 dpi)- 4 compact disks each containing about 500 Mb- updated CCITT IV Compression Source Code- a structural statistics file for each image- page rotation estimates- software utilities
Citation
World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

automated char. recognition, automated image recognition, full text databases, OCR, optical char. recognition, software recognition

Citation

Grother, P. (2008), NIST Special Database 20. NIST Scientific and Technical Document Database, World Wide Web-Internet and Web Information Systems (Accessed July 18, 2024)

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Created October 16, 2008