Text line segmentation of historical documents: A survey

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 9, Issue 2-4, 2007, Pages 123-138

  Likforman Sulem, Laurence ^a   Zahour, Abderrazak ^b   Taconet, Bruno ^b  

^a INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

Author keywords

Handwriting; Historical documents; Segmentation; Survey; Text lines

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; WORD PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34147102430     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-006-0023-z     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. Amin A. (1998): Off-line Arabic cTaracter recognition: the state of the art. Pattern Recognit. 31(5): 517-530
2. Antonacopoulos, A.: Flexible page segmentation using the background. In: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (12th ICPR), Jerusalem, Israel, 9-12 October, vol. 2, pp. 339-344, 1994
3. Antonacopoulos, A., Karatzas, D.: Document image analysis for World War II personal records. In: First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL'04, Palo Alto, pp. 336-341
4. Bar Yosef, I., Kedem, K., Dinstein, I., Beit-Arie, M., Engel, E.: Classification of Hebrew calligraphic handwriting styles: Preliminary results. In: First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, DIAL'04, Palo Alto, 2004
5. Bouche, R., Emptoz, H., LeBourgeois, F.: DEBORA - Digital accEs to Books of RenaissAnce, Lyon (France), on-line document. rfv6.insa-lyon.fr/ debora, 2000
6. Bozzi A., Sapuppo A. (1995): Computer aided preservation and transcription of ancient manuscripts and old printed documents. Ercim News 19, 27-28
7. Bruzzone, E., Coffetti, M.C.: An algorithm for extracting cursive text lines, 1999. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'99, 20-22 September, pp. 749-752, 1999
8. Calabretto, S., Bozzi, A.: The philological workstation BAMBI (Better Access to Manuscripts and Browsing of Images). Int. J. Digit. Inf. (JoDI) 1(3), 1-17 ISSN 1368-7506 (1998)
9. Cohen E., Hull J., Srihari S. (1991): Understanding handwritten text in a structured environment: Determining zip codes from addresses. Int. J. Pattern Recognit. AI 5(1-2): 221-264
10. Downton A., Leedham C.G. (1990): Preprocessing and presorting of envelope images for automatic sorting using OCR. Pattern Recognit. 23(3-4): 347-362
11. Downton, A., Lucas, S., Patoulas, G., Beccaloni, G.W., Scoble, M.J., Robinson, G.S.: Computerizing national history card archives. Proceedings of ICDAR'03, Edinburgh, 2003
12. Feldbach, M.: Generierung einer semantischen reprasentation aus abbildungen handschritlicher kirchenbuchaufzeichnungen. Diplomarbeit, Otto von Guericke Universitat Magdeburg (2000)
13. Feldbach, M., Tönnies, K.D.: Line detection and segmentation in Historical Church registers. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'01, Seattle, pp. 743-747, 2001
14. Fletcher L.A., Kasturi R. (1988): Text string segmentation from mixed text/graphics images. IEEE PAMI 10(3): 910-918
15. Govindaraju, V., Srihari, R., Srihari, S.: Handwritten text recognition. In: Document Analysis Systems DAS 94, Kaiserlautern, pp. 157-171, 1994
16. Granado, I., Mengucci, M., Muge, F.: Extraction de textes et de figures dans les livres anciens à l'aide de la morphologie mathématique. In: Actes de CIFED'2000, Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document, Lyon, pp. 81-90, 2000
17. Gusnard de Ventadert, André J., Richy H., Likforman- Sulem L., Desjardin E. (1999): Les documents anciens. Document Numérique 3(1-2): 57-73
18. He, J., Downton, A.C.: User-assisted archive document image analysis for digital library construction. In: Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Edinburgh, 2003
19. Hough, P.V.C.: Methods and means for recognizing complex patterns. US Patent 3,069,654, 1962
20. Jain A., Bhattacharjee S. (1992): Text segmentation using Gabor filters for automatic document processing. MVA 5, 169-184
21. Kim I.-K., Jung D.-W., Park R.-H. (2002): Document image binarization based on topographic analysis using a water flow model. Pattern Recognit. 35, 265-277
22. Kolcz A., Alspector J., Augusteyn M., Carlson R., Viorel Popescu G. (2000): A line-oriented approach to word spotting in handwritten document. Pattern Anal. Appl. 3, 155-168
23. Lakshmi C.V., Patvardhan C. (2004): An optical character recognition system for printed Telugu text. Pattern Anal. Appl. 7, 190-204
24. Lamouche, I., Bellissant, C.: Séparation recto/verso d'images de manuscrits anciens. In: Proceedings of Colloque National sur l'Ecrit et le Document CNED'96, Nantes, pp. 199-206, 1996
25. LeBourgeois, F.: Robust multifont OCR system from gray level images. In: 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Ulm, 1997
26. LeBourgeois, F., Emptoz, H., Trinh, E., Duong, J.: Networking digital document images. In: 6th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, Seattle, 2001
27. Likforman-Sulem L., Maitre H., Sirat C. (1990): An expert vision system for analysis of Hebrew characters and authentication of manuscripts. Pattern Recognit. 24(2): 121-137
28. Likforman-Sulem L., Faure C. (1994): Extracting lines on handwritten documents by perceptual grouping. In: Faure C., Keuss P., Lorette G., Winter A. (eds) Advances in Handwriting and Drawing: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Europia, Paris, pp. 21-38
29. Likforman-Sulem L., Faure C. (1995): Une méthode de résolution des conflits d'alignements pour la segmentation des documents manuscrits. Trait. Signal 12(6): 541-549
30. Likforman-Sulem, L., Hanimyan, A., Faure, C.: A Hough based algorithm for extracting text lines in handwritten document. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'95, pp. 774-777, 1995
31. Likforman-Sulem, L.: Extraction d'éléments graphiques dans les images de manuscrits. In: Colloque International Francophone sur l'Ecrit et le Document (CIFED'98), Québec, pp. 223-232, 1998
32. Lins R.D., Guimaraes Neto M., França Neto L., Galdino Rosa L. (1994): An environment for processing images of historical documents. Microprocess. Microprogram. 40, 939-942
33. Manmatha, R., Srimal, N.: Scale space technique for word segmentation in handwritten manuscripts. In: Proceedings 2nd International Conference on Scale Space Theories in Computer Vision, pp. 22-33, 1999
34. Marti, U., Bunke, H.: A full English sentence database for off-line handwriting recognition. In: Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR'99, Bangalore, pp. 705-708, 1999
35. Marti, U., Bunke, H.: On the influence of vocabulary size and language models in unconstrained handwritten text recognition. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'01, Seattle, pp. 260-265, 2001
36. Mello, C.A.B., Cavalcanti, C.S.V.C., Carvalho, C.: Colorizing paper texture of green-scale image of historical documents. In: Proceedings of the 4th IASTED Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing, VIIP, Marbella, Spain, 2004
37. Mengucci, M., Granado, I.: Morphological segmentation of text and figures in Renaissance books (XVI century). In Goutsias, J., Vincent, L., Bloomberg, D. (eds.) Mathematical Morphology and its applications to image processing, pp. 397-404. Kluwer, Dordrecht (2000)
38. Nagy, G., Seth, S.: Hierarchical representation of optically scanned documents. In: 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Montreal, pp. 347-349, 1984
39. O'Gorman L. (1993): The document spectrum for page layout analysis. IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell. 15, 1162-1173
40. Oztop E., Mulayim A.Y., Atalay V., Yarman-Vural F. (1999): Repulsive attractive network for baseline extraction on document images. Signal Process. 75, 1-10
41. Pal, U., Datta, S.: Segmentation of Bangla unconstrained handwritten text. In: Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1128-1132, 2003
42. Pal U., Chaudhuri B.B. (2004): Andian script character recognition: a survey. Pattern Recognit. 37, 1887-1899
43. Piquin, P., Viard-Gaudin, C., Barba, D.: Coopération des outils de segmentation et de binarisation de documents. In: Proceedings of Colloque National sur l'Ecrit et le Document, CNED'94, Rouen, pp. 283-292, 1994
44. Plamondon R., Lorette G. (1989): Automatic signature authentication and writer identification: The state of the art. Pattern Recognit. 22(2): 107-131
45. Pu, Y., Shi, Z.: A natural learning algorithm based on Hough transform for text lines extraction in handwritten documents. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Taejon, Korea, pp. 637-646, 1998
46. Rath, T., Manmatha, R.: Features for word spotting in historical manuscripts. In: Proceedings of ICDAR 03, Edinburgh, August 2003
47. Robert, L., Likforman-Sulem, L., Lecolinet, E.: Image and text coupling for creating electronic books from manuscripts. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'97, Ulm, pp. 823-826, 1997
48. Seni G., Cohen E. (1994): External word segmentation of off-line handwritten text lines. Pattern Recognit. 27(1): 41-52
49. Shapiro V., Gluhchev G., Sgurev V. (1993): Handwritten document image segmentation and analysis. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 14, 71-78
50. Shi, Z., Govindaraju, V.: Line separation for complex document images using fuzzy runlength. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries, Palo Alto, CA, USA, 23-24 January 2004
51. Shi, Z., Govindaraju, V.: Historical document image enhancement using background light intensity normalization. In: ICPR 2004, Cambridge, 2004
52. Solihin Y.A Leedham C.G. (1999): Integral ratio: a new class of global thresholding techniques for handwriting images. IEEE PAMI 21(8): 761-768
53. SrAhari, S., Kim, G.: Penman: a system for reading unconstrained handwritten page image. In: SDIUT 97, Symposium on Document Image Understanding Technology, pp. 142-153, 1997
54. Tan C.L., Cao R., Shen P. (2002): Restoration of archival documents using a wavelet technique. IEEE PAMI 24(10): 1399-1404
55. Tomai, C.I., Zhang, B., Govindaraju, V.: Transcript mapping for historic handwritten document images. In: Proceedings of IWFHR-8, Niagara, August 2002
56. Tseng Y.H., Lee H.J. (1999): Recognition-based handwritten Chinese character segmentation using a probabilistic Viterbi algorithm. Pattern Recognit. Lett. 20(8): 791-806
57. Wong K., Casey R., Wahl F. (1982): Document analysis systems. IBM J. Res. Dev. 26(6): 647-656
58. Zahour, A., Taconet, B., Mercy, P., Ramdane, S.: Arabic hand-written text-line extraction. In: Proceedings of the 6th ICDAR, Seattle, pp. 281-285, 2001
59. Zahour, A., Taconet, B., Ramdane, S.: Contribution à la segmentation de textes manuscrits anciens. In: Proceedings of CIFED 2004, La Rochelle, 2004
60. Zhang, B., Srihari, S.N., Huang, C.: Word image retrieval using binary features. In: SPIE Conference on Document Recognition and Retrieval XI, San Jose, CA, USA, 18-22 January 2004