Textline information extraction from grayscale camera-captured document images

Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2013-2016

  Bukhari, Syed Saqib ^a   Breuel, Thomas M ^a   Shafait, Faisal ^b  

^a Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^b GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

Curled textline detection; Grayscale camera captured document image segmentation

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FILTER BANKS; IMAGING SYSTEMS;

ACTIVE CONTOURS; BINARIZATIONS; CURLED TEXTLINE DETECTION; DATA SETS; DETECTION ACCURACY; DETECTION APPROACH; DEWARPING; DOCUMENT IMAGE DEWARPING; DOCUMENT IMAGE SEGMENTATION; DOCUMENT IMAGES; DOCUMENT IMAGING; GRAY SCALE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; MATCH FILTER; PLANAR PAGES; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; TEXT RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 77951952203     PISSN: 15224880     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2009.5413799     Document Type: Conference Paper

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