Overlapping and multi-touching text-line segmentation by block covering analysis

Pattern Analysis and Applications

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 335-351

  Zahour, Abderrazak ^a   Taconet, Brunco ^a   Likforman Sulem, Laurence ^b   Boussellaa, Wafa ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU HAVRE   (France)

^b INSTITUT TELECOM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Ancient Arabic documents; Block Counting; Block covering; Overlapping and multi touching lines; Text line segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350611240     PISSN: 14337541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10044-008-0127-9     Document Type: Article

References (20)

1. http://www.bibliotheque.nat.tn; http://www.archives.nat.tn.
2. Kolcz A, Alspector J, Augusteyn M, Carlson R, Viorel Popescu G (2000) A line-oriented approach to word spotting in handwritten documents. Pattern Anal Appl 3:155-168.
3. Lakshmi CV, Patvardhan C (2004) An optical character recognition system for printed Telugu text. Pattern Anal Appl 7:190-204.
4. Likforman-Sulem L, Zahour A, Taconet B (2007) Text line segmentation of historical documents: a survey. IJDAR 9(2-4):123-138.
5. Abuhaiba ISI, Datta S, Holt MJJ (2005) Line extraction and stroke ordering of text pages. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'05, Seoul (South Korea), pp 390-393.
6. Oztop E, Mulayim AY, Atalay V, Yarman-Vural F (1999) Repulsive attractive network for baseline extraction on document images. Signal Process 75:1-10.
7. Li Y, Zheng Y, Doermann D (2006) Detecting text lines in handwritten documents. In: Proceedings of ICPR'06, Hong Kong, pp 1030-1033.
8. Khorsheed MS (2002) Off-Line Arabic character recognition-a review. Pattern Anal Appl 5:31-45.
9. Lorigo LM, Govindaraju V (2006) Off-line Arabic handwriting recognition-a survey. IEEE PAMI 28(5):712-724.
10. Arivazhagan M, Srinivasan H, Srihari S (2007) A statistical approach to line segmentation in handwritten documents. In: Proceedings of Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, IST&SPIE, San Jose.
11. Zahour A, Taconet B, Mercy P, Ramdane S (2001) Arabic hand-written text-line extraction. In: Proceedings of ICDAR'01, 10-13 Sept., Seattle, USA, pp 281-285.
12. Amin A, Fischer S (2000) A document skew detection method using the Hough transform. Pattern Anal Appl 3:243-253.
13. Boussellaa W, Zahour A, El Abed H (2006) A concept for the separation of foreground/background in Arabic historical manuscripts using hybrid methods. In: Ioannides M, Arnold D, Niccolucci F, Mania K (eds) Proceedings of the 7th internat. symp. on virtual reality, archaeology and cultural heritage VAST, pp 1-5.
14. Dodson M, Kristensen S (2004) Hausdorff dimension and diophantine approximation. Fractal geometry and applications: a jubilee of Benoit Mandelbrot. Part 1. Proceedings of Sympos. Pure Math., vol 72, Part 1, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, pp 305-347.
15. Boulétreau V, Vincent N, Emptoz H, Sabourin R (2000) How to use fractal dimension to qualify writings and writers. Fractals Complex Geometry Patterns Scaling Nat Soc 8(1):85-98.
16. Vincent N, Emptoz H (1995) A classification of writing based on fractals. In: Novak MM (ed) Fractal reviews in the natural and applied sciences. Chapman & Hall, London, pp 320-331.
17. Ben Moussa S, Zahour A, Alimi MA, Benabdelhafid A (2005) Can fractal dimension be used in font classification. In: Proceedings of ICDAR 2005, Seoul (South Korea).
18. Hausdorff F (1919) Dimension und äußeres Maß. Math Ann 79:157.
19. Wu S, Chow TWS (2005) Clustering of the self-organizing map using a clustering validity index based on inter and intra-cluster density. Pattern Recognit 37(2):175-188.
20. Falconer K (1997) Techniques in fractal geometry. Willey, New York, ISBN 0-471-92287-0.