Extraction of text lines and text blocks on document images based on statistical modeling

Su S. Chen; Robert M. Haralick; Ihsin T. Phillips

doi:10.1117/12.234699

7 March 1996 Extraction of text lines and text blocks on document images based on statistical modeling

Su S. Chen, Robert M. Haralick, Ihsin T. Phillips

Proceedings Volume 2660, Document Recognition III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234699
Event: Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1996, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we developed statistical models to characterize the text line and text block structures on document images using the text word bounding boxes. We posed the extraction problem as finding the text lines and text blocks that maximize the Bayesian probability of the text lines and text blocks by observing the text word bounding boxes. We derived the so-called probabilistic linear displacement model (PLDM) to model the text line structures from text word bounding boxes. We also developed an augmented PLDM model to characterize the text block structures from text line bounding boxes. By systematically gathering statistics from a large population of document images, we are able to validate our models experimentally and determine the proper model parameters. We designed and implemented an iterative algorithm that utilized these probabilistic models to extract the text lines and text blocks. The quantitative performances of the algorithm in terms of the rates of miss, false, correct, splitting, merging and spurious detections of the text lines and text blocks were reported.

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Su S. Chen, Robert M. Haralick, and Ihsin T. Phillips "Extraction of text lines and text blocks on document images based on statistical modeling", Proc. SPIE 2660, Document Recognition III, (7 March 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.234699

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