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 …

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 …

In recent years, the problem of scene text extraction from images has received extensive
attention and significant progress. However, text extraction from scholarly figures such as …

Text extraction from scientific figures has been addressed in the past by different
unsupervised approaches due to the limited amount of training data. Motivated by the recent …

Comic books are one of different forms of storytelling and entertainments around the word.
Through years, comic books have been widely spread. This fact has encouraged document …

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 …

Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization
combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as …

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 …