Extending page segmentation algorithms for mixed-layout document processing

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1245-1249

  Winder, Amy ^a,b   Andersen, Tim ^a   Smith, Elisa H Barney ^a  

^a Boise State University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

open source OCR; page segmentation; RAST; Voronoi

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; NON-TEXT REGIONS; OCR ENGINES; OPEN SOURCES; PAGE SEGMENTATION; PAGE SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS; RAST; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY; TEST DATA; VORONOI; VORONOI ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355172996     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.251     Document Type: Conference Paper

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