An algorithm for finding maximal whitespace rectangles at arbitrary orientations for document layout analysis

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 66-70

  Breuel, Thomas M ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

ARBITRARY ORIENTATION; BACKGROUND ANALYSIS; CONCISE REPRESENTATIONS; DOCUMENT LAYOUT ANALYSIS; FEATURES OF DOCUMENTS; PAGE LAYOUTS; PARAMETER RANGE; PHYSICAL DOCUMENTS;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 33645978256     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227629     Document Type: Conference Paper

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