In this paper, we give an overview on approaches for the graphic extraction, and especially for the image extraction from printed documents. We present also our contribution to this area operating on historical Arab periodicals. The developed method works on monochrome documents and is based on the Gabor filter exploration followed by many post-processing steps. It allows firstly the text/graph...

Senior Honors Thesis 2 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Dr. Brown for giving me the opportunity to conduct research in his lab, awarding me with financial support, and providing with me his time, invaluable guidance, and encouragement. I would also like to thank Paula Monsma for her time and patience in teaching me instrumental lab techniques. Additionally, I would like to thank all of th...