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OCR of Printed Mathematical Expressions

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Garain, U., Chaudhuri, B.B. (2007). OCR of Printed Mathematical Expressions. In: Chaudhuri, B.B. (eds) Digital Document Processing. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-726-8_11

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