Document representation refinement for precise region description

Clausner, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6041-1002, Pletschacher, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0541-0968 and Antonacopoulos, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9552-0233 2014, Document representation refinement for precise region description , in: DATeCH 2014: Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage 2014, 19th-20th May 2014, Madrid, Spain.

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Abstract

Precise description of layout entities (content regions on a page) is crucial for all but the most trivial document analysis and recognition applications. The output of layout analysis methods and state-of-the-art OCR systems varies significantly, from bounding boxes (e.g. Tesseract) to stacks of text line rectangles (e.g. ABBYY FineReader). There is a clear need for a consistent and accurate representation of regions (e.g. text paragraphs, graphics entities etc.) for further processing, correction and performance evaluation (comparison of segmentation results with ground truth regions). This paper describes a method for refinement of document representations by fitting polygons around lower-level layout objects (such as text lines, words and glyphs) in a systematic way that reconstructs region outlines and preserves the fine details of complex layouts. Experimental results on a standard dataset demonstrate the validity and usefulness of the proposed approach.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Schools:	Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	Proceedings of the First International Conference on Digital Access to Textual Cultural Heritage
Publisher:	ACM Digital Library
Refereed:	Yes
ISBN:	9781450325882
Related URLs:	Publication
Funders:	European Union
Depositing User:	Professor Apostolos Antonacopoulos
Date Deposited:	28 Jan 2015 11:21
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 18:57
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/33525

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