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ICDAR
2011
IEEE
12 years 7 months ago
Language-Independent Text Lines Extraction Using Seam Carving
Abstract—In this paper, we present a novel languageindependent algorithm for extracting text-lines from handwritten document images. Our algorithm is based on the seam carving ap...
Raid Saabni, Jihad El-Sana
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Text Line Segmentation Based on Morphology and Histogram Projection
Text extraction is an important phase in document recognition systems. In order to segment text from a page document it is necessary to detect all the possible manuscript text reg...
Rodolfo P. dos Santos, Gabriela S. Clemente, Ing R...
DIAL
2004
IEEE
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13 years 11 months ago
Text Alignment with Handwritten Documents
Today's digital libraries increasingly include not only printed text but also scanned handwritten pages and other multimedia material. There are, however, few tools available...
E. Micah Kornfield, R. Manmatha, James Allan
CAIP
2009
Springer
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14 years 11 days ago
A Novel Approach for Word Spotting Using Merge-Split Edit Distance
Edit distance matching has been used in literature for word spotting with characters taken as primitives. The recognition rate however, is limited by the segmentation inconsistenci...
Khurram Khurshid, Claudie Faure, Nicole Vincent
ICIP
2005
IEEE
14 years 9 months ago
Segmenting small regions in the presence of noise
Binary segmentation, a problem of extracting foreground objects from the background, often arises in medical imaging and document processing. Popular existing solutions include Ex...
Rashi Samur, Vitali Zagorodnov