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...
We propose a new, very low complexity, single-pass, algorithm for compression of continuous tone compound documents, known as GRAFIT (GuaRAnteed FIT) that can guarantee a minimum ...
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...
Abstract. In this paper we report results of experiments conducted with strategies for improving text-based image retrieval. The adopted strategies were evaluated in the photograph...
A novel method for the segmentation of double-sided ancient document images suffering from bleed-through effect is presented. It takes advantage of the level set framework to prov...