—In this paper, a novel Chinese character localization method is proposed for texts in advertising images. To deal with the texts with gradient color, a color clustering method b...
In this paper, a new efficient word spotting methodology is presented that can be applied to historical printed documents without requiring any previous block or word segmentation...
This paper presents a novel approach for skew correction of documents. Skew correction is modelled as an optimization problem, and for the first time, Particle Swarm Optimization...
The method herein proposed detects text lines on handwritten pages which may include either lines oriented in several directions, erasures, or annotationsbetween main lines. The m...
Scanning two book pages at the same time helps to accelerate the scanning process but on the other hand introduces several difficulties if the user needs to have one page per imag...