Unified layout analysis and text localization framework

Nikos Vasilopoulos; Ergina Kavallieratou

doi:10.1117/1.JEI.26.1.013009

31 January 2017 Unified layout analysis and text localization framework

Nikos Vasilopoulos, Ergina Kavallieratou

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Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 26, Issue 1, 013009 (January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.26.1.013009

Abstract

A technique appropriate for extracting textual information from documents with complex layouts, such as newspapers and journals, is presented. It is a combination of a foreground analysis and a text localization method. The first one is used to segment the page in text and nontext blocks, whereas the second one is used to detect text that may be embedded inside images, charts, diagrams, tables, etc. Detailed experiments on two public databases showed that mixing layout analysis and text localization techniques can lead to improved page segmentation and text extraction results.

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Nikos Vasilopoulos and Ergina Kavallieratou "Unified layout analysis and text localization framework," Journal of Electronic Imaging 26(1), 013009 (31 January 2017). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.26.1.013009

Received: 22 September 2016; Accepted: 10 January 2017; Published: 31 January 2017

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