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DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
MathBrush: A System for Doing Math on Pen-Based Devices
Many on-line (interactive) mathematics recognition systems allow the creation of typeset equations, normally in LaTeX, but they do not support mathematical problem solving. In thi...
George Labahn, Edward Lank, Scott MacLean, Mirette...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
On the Reading of Tables of Contents
This paper presents a framework for understanding tables of contents (TOC) of books, journals, and magazines. We propose a universal logical structure representation in terms of a...
Prateek Sarkar, Eric Saund
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Fast and Accurate Skew Estimation Based on Distance Transform
Document skew estimation is an important step in the process of document analysis. In this paper we discuss the properties of the distance transform of binarized documents and der...
Itay Bar Yosef, Nate Hagbi, Klara Kedem, Its'hak D...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
An Efficient Edge Based Technique for Text Detection in Video Frames
Both graphic text and scene text detection in video images with complex background and low resolution is still a challenging and interesting problem for researchers in the field o...
Palaiahnakote Shivakumara, Weihua Huang, Chew Lim ...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
A Two-Step Dewarping of Camera Document Images
Dewarping of camera document images has attracted a lot of interest over the last few years since warping not only reduces the document readability but also affects the accuracy o...
Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pr...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Handling of Surface Modifications for Robust Image Based Mail Piece Comparison
Image based mail piece identification is a new technology for optimizing the postal sorting process. Exploiting the mail piece surface uniqueness, characteristic features are used...
Katja Worm, Beate Meffert
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
HistoSketch: A Semi-Automatic Annotation Tool for Archival Documents
This article describes a sketch-based framework for semi-automatic annotation of historical document collections. It is motivated by the fact that fully automatic methods, while h...
Joan Mas, José A. Rodríguez, Dimosth...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Affine Invariant Recognition of Characters by Progressive Pruning
There are many problems to realize camera-based character recognition. One of the problems is that characters in scenes are often distorted by geometric transformations such as af...
Akira Horimatsu, Ryo Niwa, Masakazu Iwamura, Koich...
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Dolores: An Interactive and Class-Free Approach for Document Logical Restructuring
Physical and logical structure recovering from electronic documents is still an open issue. In this paper, we propose a flexible and efficient approach for recovering document str...
Jean-Luc Bloechle, Catherine Pugin, Rolf Ingold
DAS
2008
Springer
14 years 18 days ago
Difference of Boxes Filters Revisited: Shadow Suppression and Efficient Character Segmentation
A robust segmentation is the most important part of an automatic character recognition system (e.g. document processing, license plate recognition etc.). In our contribution we pr...
Erik Rodner, Herbert Süße, Wolfgang Ort...