A comprehensive survey of mostly textual document segmentation algorithms since 2008

S Eskenazi, P Gomez-Krämer, JM Ogier - Pattern recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
In document image analysis, segmentation is the task that identifies the regions of a
document. The increasing number of applications of document analysis requires a good …

Script-independent handwritten textlines segmentation using active contours

SS Bukhari, F Shafait, TM Breuel - 2009 10th International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Handwritten document images contain textlines with multi orientations, touching and
overlapping characters within consecutive textlines, and small inter-line spacing making …

Text-line extraction in handwritten chinese documents based on an energy minimization framework

HI Koo, NI Cho - IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Text-line extraction in unconstrained handwritten documents remains a challenging problem
due to nonuniform character scale, spatially varying text orientation, and the interference …

Adaptive dewarping of severely warped camera-captured document images based on document map generation

CH Nachappa, NS Rani, PB Pati… - International Journal on …, 2023 - Springer
Automated dewarping of camera-captured handwritten documents is a challenging research
problem in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Most available systems assume the …

Active Canny: edge detection and recovery with open active contour models

M Baştan, SS Bukhari, T Breuel - IET Image Processing, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The authors introduce an edge detection and recovery framework based on open active
contour models (snakelets) to mitigate the problem of noisy or broken edges produced by …

A general approach for multi-oriented text line extraction of handwritten documents

N Ouwayed, A Belaïd - International Journal on Document Analysis and …, 2012 - Springer
The multi-orientation occurs frequently in ancient handwritten documents, where the writers
try to update a document by adding some annotations in the margins. Due to the margin …

State estimation in a document image and its application in text block identification and text line extraction

HI Koo, NI Cho - Computer Vision–ECCV 2010: 11th European …, 2010 - Springer
This paper proposes a new approach to the estimation of document states such as interline
spacing and text line orientation, which facilitates a number of tasks in document image …

Distance transform based text-line extraction from unconstrained handwritten document images

SK Bera, S Kundu, N Kumar, R Sarkar - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Text-line extraction (TLE) is the process of segmenting a document page into lines of text for
processing by modules such as language and writer identification or Optical Character …

Coupled snakelets for curled text-line segmentation from warped document images

SS Bukhari, F Shafait, TM Breuel - International Journal on Document …, 2013 - Springer
Camera-captured, warped document images usually contain curled text-lines because of
distortions caused by camera perspective view and page curl. Warped document images …

Text line extraction in graphical documents using background and foreground information

PP Roy, U Pal, J Lladós - International Journal on Document Analysis and …, 2012 - Springer
In graphical documents (eg, maps, engineering drawings), artistic documents etc., the text
lines are annotated in multiple orientations or curvilinear way to illustrate different locations …