Comics and manga are one of the most popular and familiar forms of graphic content over the world and play a major role in spreading country’s culture. Nowadays, massive digitization allow page-per-page mobile reading but we believe that other usages will be released in the near future. In this paper, we focus on speech balloon segmentation which is a key issue for text/graphic association in s...

Over the past two decades a significant number of layout analysis (page segmentation and region classification) approaches have been proposed in the literature. Each approach has been devised for and/or evaluated using (usually small) application-specific datasets. While the need for objective performance evaluation of layout analysis algorithms is evident, there does not exist a suitable datas...

ÐTo maintain OCR accuracy with decreasing quality of page image composition, production, and digitization, it is essential to tune the system to each document. We propose a prototype extraction method for document-specific OCR systems. The method automatically generates training samples from unsegmented text images and the corresponding transcripts. It is tolerant of transcription errors, so a ...

Cross-browser compatibility testing aims at verifying that a web page is rendered as intended by its developers across multiple browsers and platforms. Browserbite is a tool for cross-browser testing based on comparison of screenshots with the aim of identifying differences that a user may perceive as incompatibilities. Browserbite is based on segmentation and image comparison techniques adapte...

In this paper, a preprocessing model for hand-written Arabic text on the basis of the Voronoi Diagrams (VDs) is presented and discussed. The proposed VD-based pre-processing model consists of five stages: a preparatory stage, page segmentation, thinning, baseline estimation, and slanting correction. In the preparatory stage, the text image is converted via VDs into a group of geometrical forms ...

Abstract— The results rendered by the search engines are mostly a linear snippet list. With the prolific increase in the dynamism of web pages there is a need for enhanced result lists from search engines in order to cope-up with the expectations of the users. This paper proposes a model for dynamic construction of a resultant page from various results fetched by the search engine, based on the...

In this paper, a modified segmentation algorithm for printed Farsi words is presented. This algorithm is based on a previous work by Azmi that uses the conditional labeling of the upper contour to find the segmentation points. The main objective is to improve the segmentation results for low quality prints. To achieve this, various modifications on local baseline detection, contour labeling an...

A segmentation algorithm, which can detect different regions of a handwritten document such as text lines, tables and sketches will be extremely useful in a variety of applications such as retrieval, translation and genre classification. However, this task is extremely challenging for handwritten documents, which vary considerably in their structure and content. In this paper, we describe a rob...

Recent years have witnessed a drastic technological advancement in the heterogeneous display devices and they have come within the reach of individuals. But most of the websites available on Internet do not utilize the spaces available in these large screen devices as well as the small screen devices probe difficulties in adjusting the web contents on the available space. In this study, we prop...