ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. G...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Portable ballot counters using camera technology and manual paper feed are potentially more reliable and less expensive than scanner-based systems. We show that the spatial sampli...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
The aim of this work is to propose a new approach to the recognition of historical texts by providing an adaptive mechanism that automatically tunes itself to a specific book. Th...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper we analyze our recent research on the use of document analysis techniques for metadata extraction from PDF papers. We describe a package that is designed to extract ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
Many types of degradation can render ancient manuscripts very hard to read. In bleed-through, the text from the reverse, or verso, side of a page seeps through into the front, or ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
An original binarization method based on connected operators is proposed in this paper. Connected operators enable to filter and/or segment an image by preserving its contours. T...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper presents a new method to extract shapes in drop caps and particularly the most important shape: Letter itself. This method relies on a combination of a Aujol and Chambo...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a comparative study between the affixal approach and the analytical approach for off-line Arabic decomposable word recognition. The analytical approach i...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line character recognition that mainly focuses on handling the difficult cases of historical fonts and styles. The proposed methodo...