Arabic newspaper page segmentation
Karim Hadjar, Rolf Ingold · 2005
The aim of layout analysis is to extract the geometricstructure from a document image. It consists of labelinghomogenous regions of a document image. This paperdescribes the performance of segmentation algorithmsand their adaptation in order to treat complex structuredArabic documents such as newspapers. Experimentaltests have been carried out on four different phases ofnewspaper image analysis: thread recognition, framerecognition, image text separation, text line recognition,and line merging into blocks. Some promisingexperimental results are reported.