Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
As the most pervasive method of individual identification and document authentication, signatures present convincing evidence and provide an important form of indexing for effectiv...
In this paper, we present a compressed pattern matching method for searching user queried words in the CCITT Group 4 compressed document images, without decompressing. The feature...
Abstract. We propose an approach for efficient word retrieval from printed documents belonging to Digital Libraries. The approach combines word image clustering (based on Self Orga...
A large amount of handwritten documents exist in image form, as scanned documents. The supporting electronic media allows for better preservation, but to access their content they...
Antonio Clavelli, Luigi P. Cordella, Claudio De St...