ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. G...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Portable ballot counters using camera technology and manual paper feed are potentially more reliable and less expensive than scanner-based systems. We show that the spatial sampli...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
The aim of this work is to propose a new approach to the recognition of historical texts by providing an adaptive mechanism that automatically tunes itself to a specific book. Th...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper we analyze our recent research on the use of document analysis techniques for metadata extraction from PDF papers. We describe a package that is designed to extract ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
Many types of degradation can render ancient manuscripts very hard to read. In bleed-through, the text from the reverse, or verso, side of a page seeps through into the front, or ...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
An original binarization method based on connected operators is proposed in this paper. Connected operators enable to filter and/or segment an image by preserving its contours. T...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
This paper presents a new method to extract shapes in drop caps and particularly the most important shape: Letter itself. This method relies on a combination of a Aujol and Chambo...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we propose a comparative study between the affixal approach and the analytical approach for off-line Arabic decomposable word recognition. The analytical approach i...
ICDAR
2009
IEEE
14 years 7 months ago
2009
IEEE
In this paper, we present a methodology for off-line character recognition that mainly focuses on handling the difficult cases of historical fonts and styles. The proposed methodo...