LAREX - A semi-automatic open-source Tool for Layout Analysis and Region Extraction on Early Printed Books

Christian Reul; Frank Puppe; Uwe Springmann

LAREX - A semi-automatic open-source Tool for Layout Analysis and Region Extraction on Early Printed Books

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arxiv 1701.07396 v1 pith:WALLN6OV submitted 2017-01-20 cs.CV cs.AI

Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Frank Puppe This is my paper

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A semi-automatic open-source tool for layout analysis on early printed books is presented. LAREX uses a rule based connected components approach which is very fast, easily comprehensible for the user and allows an intuitive manual correction if necessary. The PageXML format is used to support integration into existing OCR workflows. Evaluations showed that LAREX provides an efficient and flexible way to segment pages of early printed books.

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