Shape codebook based handwritten and machine printed text zone extraction

Jayant Kumar; Rohit Prasad; Huiagu Cao; Wael Abd-Almageed; David Doermann; Premkumar Natarajan

doi:10.1117/12.876725

24 January 2011 Shape codebook based handwritten and machine printed text zone extraction

Jayant Kumar, Rohit Prasad, Huiagu Cao, Wael Abd-Almageed, David Doermann, Premkumar Natarajan

Proceedings Volume 7874, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII; 787406 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876725
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a novel method for extracting handwritten and printed text zones from noisy document images with mixed content. We use Triple-Adjacent-Segment (TAS) based features which encode local shape characteristics of text in a consistent manner. We first construct two codebooks of the shape features extracted from a set of handwritten and printed text documents respectively. We then compute the normalized histogram of codewords for each segmented zone and use it to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The codebook based approach is robust to the background noise present in the image and TAS features are invariant to translation, scale and rotation of text. In experiments, we show that a pixel-weighted zone classification accuracy of 98% can be achieved for noisy Arabic documents. Further, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our method for document page classification and show that a high precision can be achieved for the detection of machine printed documents. The proposed method is robust to the size of zones, which may contain text content at line or paragraph level.

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Jayant Kumar, Rohit Prasad, Huiagu Cao, Wael Abd-Almageed, David Doermann, and Premkumar Natarajan "Shape codebook based handwritten and machine printed text zone extraction", Proc. SPIE 7874, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII, 787406 (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876725

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