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Bai Noi Nguyen

at Chungbuk National Univ

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Proceedings Article | 28 January 2008 Paper

Extracting curved text lines using the chain composition and the expanded grouping method

Nguyen Noi Bai, Kim Nam, Youngjun Song

Proceedings Volume 6815, 68150U (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.766057

KEYWORDS: Error analysis, Image processing, Fuzzy logic, Databases, Optical signal processing, Communication engineering, Document image analysis, Image segmentation, Hough transforms, Electronic imaging

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In this paper, we present a method to extract the text lines in poorly structured documents. The text lines may have different orientations, considerably curved shapes, and there are possibly a few wide inter-word gaps in a text line. Those text lines can be found in posters, blocks of addresses, artistic documents. Our method is an expansion of the traditional perceptual grouping. We develop novel solutions to overcome the problems of insufficient seed points and varied orientations in a single line. In this paper, we assume that text lines consists of connected components, in which each connected components is a set of black pixels within a letter, or some touched letters. In our scheme, the connected components closer than an iteratively incremented threshold will be combined to make chains of connected components. Elongate chains are identified as the seed chains of lines. Then the seed chains are extended to the left and the right regarding the local orientations. The local orientations will be reevaluated at each side of the chains when it is extended. By this process, all text lines are finally constructed. The advantage of the proposed method over prior works in extraction of curved text lines is that this method can both deal with more than a specific language and extract text lines containing some wide inter-word gaps. The proposed method is good for extraction of the considerably curved text lines from logos and slogans in our experiment; 98% and 94% for the straight-line extraction and the curved-line extraction, respectively.

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