All Outputs (5)

Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction (2015)
Book Chapter
Retsinas, G., Gatos, B., Antonacopoulos, A., Louloudis, G., & Stamatopoulos, N. (2015). Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing (HIP2015) (31-38). ACM Digital Library. https://doi.org/10.1145/2809544.2809559

Recognition of low-quality historical typewritten documents can still be considered as a challenging and difficult task due to several issues i.e. the existence of faint and degraded characters, stains, tears, punch holes etc. In this paper, we explo... Read More about Historical typewritten document recognition using minimal user interaction.

ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015 (2015)
Book Chapter
Antonacopoulos, A., Clausner, C., Papadopoulos, C., & Pletschacher, S. (2015). ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (1151-1155). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333941

This paper presents an objective comparative evaluation of page segmentation and region classification methods for documents with complex layouts. It describes the competition (modus operandi, dataset and evaluation methodology) held in the context o... Read More about ICDAR2015 competition on recognition of documents with complex layouts - RDCL2015.

Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation (2005)
Book Chapter
Karatzas, D., & Antonacopoulos, A. (2005). Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation. In G. Malcolm (Ed.), Multidisciplinary approaches to visual representations and interpretations (181-196). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1571-0831%2804%2980041-8

This chapter examines the uses of text and its representation on Web documents in terms of the challenges in its interpretation. Particular attention is paid to the significant problem of non-uniform representation of text. This non-uniformity is mai... Read More about Visual representation of text in web documents and its interpretation.

A robust braille recognition system (2004)
Book Chapter
Antonacopoulos, A., & Bridson, D. (2004). A robust braille recognition system. In A. Dengel, & S. Marinai (Eds.), Document analysis systems VI (533-545). Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/b100557

Braille is the most effective means of written communication between
visually-impaired and sighted people. This paper describes a new system
that recognizes Braille characters in scanned Braille document pages. Unlike
most other approaches, an ine... Read More about A robust braille recognition system.

The ENP image and ground truth dataset of historical newspapers
Book Chapter
Clausner, C., Papadopoulos, C., Pletschacher, S., & Antonacopoulos, A. The ENP image and ground truth dataset of historical newspapers. In 2015 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) (931-935). IEEE-CPS. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDAR.2015.7333898

This paper presents a research dataset of historical newspapers comprising over 500 page images, uniquely representative of European cultural heritage from the digitization projects of 12 national and major European libraries, created within the scop... Read More about The ENP image and ground truth dataset of historical newspapers.