Document Thumbnails with Variable Text Scaling
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Document Thumbnails with Variable Text Scaling
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Computer Graphics Forum
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0167-7055
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03109.x