Improved document image segmentation algorithm using multiresolution morphology

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7874, Issue , 2011, Pages

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

^a University of Koblenz Landau   (Germany)

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

Author keywords

Multiresolution Morphology; Page Segmentation; Text Non Text Segmentation

Indexed keywords

BLOOMBERG; CIRCUIT DIAGRAMS; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; MULTIRESOLUTION MORPHOLOGY; OPEN-SOURCE; ORIGINAL ALGORITHMS; PAGE SEGMENTATION; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; TEST IMAGES; TEXT ELEMENTS; TEXT SEGMENTATION ALGORITHM; TEXT/NON-TEXT SEGMENTATION;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79955718750     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.873461     Document Type: Conference Paper

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