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Extending The Page Segmentation Algorithms Of The Ocropus Documentation Layout Analysis System, Amy Alison Winder
Extending The Page Segmentation Algorithms Of The Ocropus Documentation Layout Analysis System, Amy Alison Winder
Boise State University Theses and Dissertations
With the advent of more powerful personal computers, inexpensive memory, and digital cameras, curators around the world are working towards preserving historical documents on computers. Since many of the organizations for which they work have limited funds, there is world-wide interest in a low-cost solution to obtaining these digital records in a computer-readable form. An open source layout analysis system called OCRopus is being developed for such a purpose. In its original state, though, it could not process documents that contained information other than text. Segmenting the page into regions of text and non-text areas is the first step of …