In this paper, we present a new approach to extracting the target text line from a document image captured by a pen scanner. Given the binary image, a set of possible text lines a...
We propose a method for constructing a vector for a document image to represent its content to facilitate text retrieval. The method is based on an N-Gram algorithm for text simil...
Page segmentation into text and non-text components is an essential preprocessing step before OCR operation. If this is not done properly, an OCR classification engine produces g...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
In this paper, we present a novel method for processing double-sided historic handwritten documents using wavelets. The method is specially designed to remove the interfering stro...
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...