Hundreds of millions of figures are available in biomedical literature, representing important
biomedical experimental evidence. Since text is a rich source of information in figures …

Background Figures are ubiquitous in biomedical full-text articles, and they represent
important biomedical knowledge. However, the sheer volume of biomedical publications has …

Background Biomedical scientists need to access figures to validate research facts and to
formulate or to test novel research hypotheses. However, figures are difficult to comprehend …

Abstract Background The Portable Document Format (PDF) is the most commonly used file
format for online scientific publications. The absence of effective means to extract text from …

Slif uses a combination of text-mining and image processing to extract information from
figures in the biomedical literature. It also uses innovative extensions to traditional latent …

Different approaches have been proposed in the past to address the challenge of extracting
text from scholarly figures. However, until recently, no comparative evaluation of the different …

So far, there has not been a comparative evaluation of different approaches for text
extraction from scholarly figures. In order to fill this gap, we have defined a generic pipeline …

Although figures in scientific articles have high information content and concisely
communicate many key research findings, they are currently under utilized by literature …

Experimental research publications provide figure form resources including graphs, charts,
and any type of images to effectively support and convey methods and results. To describe …

Hundreds of millions of figures are available in the biomedical literature, representing
important biomedical experimental evidence. Since text is a rich source of information in …