A spanned cell in a table is a single, complete unit that physically occupies multiple columns and/or multiple rows. Spanned cells are common in tables, and they are a significan...
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...
In this paper we present a novel model based approach to detect severely broken parallel lines in noisy textual documents. It is important to detect and remove these lines so the ...
Government agencies must often quickly organize and analyze large amounts of textual information, for example comments received as part of notice and comment rulemaking. Hierarchi...
Web users are always distracted by a large number of results returned from search engines. Clustering can efficiently facilitate users’ browsing pages of certain topic. However...