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The Geometric Layout Analysis of the Document Image Using Connected Components Method and Median Filter  

Jang, Dae-Geun (경북대학교 전자${\cdot}$전기${\cdot}$컴퓨터학부 데이터 통신 시스템 연구실)
Hwang, Chan-Sik (경북대학교 전자${\cdot}$전기${\cdot}$컴퓨터학부 데이터 통신 시스템 연구실)
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The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences / v.27, no.8A, 2002 , pp. 805-813 More about this Journal
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Document image should be classified into detailed regions as text, picture, table and etc through the geometric layout analysis if paper documents can be converted automatically into electronic documents. However, complexity of the document layout and variety of the size and density of a picture are the reason to make it difficult to analyze the geometric layout of the document images. In this paper, we propose the method which have a better performance of the region segmentation and classifications, and the line extraction in the table region than the commercial softwares and previous methods. The proposed method can segment the document into detailed regions by using connected components method even if its layout is complex. This method also classifies texts and pictures by using separable median filter even. Though their size and density are diverse, In addition, this method extracts the lines from the table adapting one dimensional median filter to the each horizontal and vertical direction, even though lines are deformed or texts attached to them.
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