Line-Level Layout Recognition of Historical Documents with Background Knowledge

Text Line Extraction from Complex Layout Documents

There are numerous stylish documents which do not have the traditional text layouts where printed text regions are not parallel to each other. Such complex layouts make text line extraction challenging due to multi-orientation of paragraphs. This paper introduces a system for the text line extraction from the complex layout documents. Proposed method is based on the concept of dilation and hist...

Structure Recognition of Table-Form Documents on the Basis of the Automatic Acqusition of Layout Knowledge

Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Documents

The amount of digitized legacy documents has been rising dramatically over the last years due mainly to the increasing number of on-line digital libraries publishing this kind of documents. The vast majority of them remain waiting to be transcribed into a textual electronic format (such as ASCII or PDF) that would provide historians and other researchers new ways of indexing, consulting and que...

Integrating Optical Character Recognition and Machine Translation of Historical Documents

Machine Translation (MT) plays a critical role in expanding capacity in the translation industry. However, many valuable documents, including digital documents, are encoded in non-accessible formats for machine processing (e.g., Historical or Legal documents). Such documents must be passed through a process of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to render the text suitable for MT. No matter how...

Classification and Recognition of Neume Note Notation in Historical Documents

Neume musical notation is a type of writing of Christian Orthodox Church chant originated in Ancient Byzantium, which is still used by the Orthodox Church. The big varieties of preserved historical documents, which contain neumes give reach material for investigations in fields like history, cultural sciences, etc. This causes the natural need of a software package which can help these investig...