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Block selection: a method for segmenting a page image of various editing styles

Wang et al., 1995

Document ID
12207552003663120969
Author
Wang S
Yagasaki T
Publication year
Publication venue
Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition

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This paper presents a page segmentation method called block selection which not only segments the page image into categorized blocks but also provides a novel tree structure to represent the page blocks for selection. Block selection, more than classifying the text and …
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