There is a significant need to objectively evaluate layout analysis (page segmentation and region classification) methods. This paper describes the Page Segmentation Competition (...
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 number of techniques have previously been proposed for effective thresholding of document images. In this paper two new thresholding techniques are proposed and compared against...
Graham Leedham, Yan Chen, Kalyan Takru, Joie Hadi ...
The problem addressed in this paper is the automatic extraction of names from a document image. Our approach relies on the combination of two complementary analyses. First, the ima...
—Transcription of handwritten words in historical documents is still a difficult task. When processing huge amount of pages, document-centered approaches are limited by the trad...
Laurent Guichard, Joseph Chazalon, Bertrand Co&uum...