Text line extraction in graphical documents using background and foreground information

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 227-241

  Roy, Partha Pratim ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b   Lladós, Josep ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Artistic documents; Foreground background information; Graphical document analysis; Multi oriented text line segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTISTIC DOCUMENTS; BACKGROUND INFORMATION; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING DRAWING; FOREGROUND INFORMATION; FOREGROUND-BACKGROUND INFORMATION; INDIVIDUAL COMPONENTS; MULTIPLE ORIENTATIONS; NOISY IMAGE; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; TEXT LINE SEGMENTATION; TEXT LINES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84865393749     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-011-0167-3     Document Type: Article

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