Search

Advanced Search

Find results with:

Add another field

Search by date

to

Searching collections:

Institutional Repository

Add or remove collections

Home Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents

Rate

To link to this object, paste this link in email, IM or document

To embed this object, paste this HTML in website

Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents

View Description

Download

small (250x250 max)

medium (500x500 max)

large ( > 500x500)

Full Resolution

Print

PDF
Text

Description

Rating
Permanent URL	http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/2624
Title	Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents
BYU Creator	Barrett, William A. Kennard, Douglas J.
Keywords	handwritten documents; text; separating lines
Description/Abstract	We present an approach to finding (and separating) lines of text in free-form handwritten historical document images. After preprocessing, our method uses the count of foreground/background transitions in a binarized image to determine areas of the document that are likely to be text lines. Alternatively, an Adaptive Local Connectivity Map (ALCM) found in the literature can be used for this step of the process. We then use a min-cut/max-flow graph cut algorithm to split up text areas that appear to encompass more than one line of text. After removing text lines containing relatively little text information (or merging them with nearby text lines), we create output images for each line. A grayscale output image is created, as well as a special mask image containing both the foreground and information flagging ambiguous pixels. Foreground pixels that belong to other text lines are removed from the output images to provide cleaner line images useful for further processing. While some refinement is still necessary, the result of early experimentation with our method is encouraging.
Source	Douglas J. Kennard and William A. Barrett, "Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Hand-written Historical Documents" IEEE Proceedings, 2nd International Conference on Document Image Analysis for Libraries (DIAL 2006), pp. 12-23, Lyon, France, April, 2006.;
Publisher	IEEE
Date Original	2006-04
Date Digital	2010-10-26
Language	English eng en
Publication Type	Articles Conference Proceedings
Type	Text
Format	application/pdf
Owning Institution	Brigham Young University
BYU College	College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences
BYU Department	Computer Science
Copyright Status	(c) 2006 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish this material for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted component of this work in other works must be obtained from the IEEE.;
Copyright Use Information	http://www.lib.byu.edu/generic_copyright.html

Tags

Add tags for Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents

View as list | View as tag cloud | report abuse

Comments

Post a Comment for Separating Lines of Text in Free-Form Handwritten Historical Documents

you wish to report:

Your comment:

Your Name:

Submit

Cancel

...

Powered by CONTENTdm®