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CHI
2001
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Listen reader: an electronically augmented paper-based book
While predictions abound that electronic books will supplant traditional paper-based books, many people bemoan the coming loss of the book as cultural artifact. In this project we...
Maribeth Back, Jonathan Cohen, Rich Gold, Steve R....
ICDAR
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Distinguishing Mathematics Notation from English Text using Computational Geometry
A trainable method for distinguishing between mathematics notation and natural language (here, English) in images of textlines, using computational geometry methods only with no a...
Derek M. Drake, Henry S. Baird
ICDAR
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Locating Charts from Scanned Document Pages
This paper presents our work on automatically locating charts from document pages, which is an important stage in the chart image recognition and understanding system being develo...
W. Huang, C.-L. Tan
JCDL
2006
ACM
176views Education» more  JCDL 2006»
13 years 11 months ago
A hierarchical, HMM-based automatic evaluation of OCR accuracy for a digital library of books
A number of projects are creating searchable digital libraries of printed books. These include the Million Book Project, the Google Book project and similar efforts from Yahoo an...
Shaolei Feng, R. Manmatha
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Finding Images and Line-Drawings in Document-Scanning Systems
The system presented in this paper finds images and line-drawings in scanned pages; it is a crucial processing step in the creation of a large-scale system to detect and index ima...
Shumeet Baluja, Michele Covell