Complex layout analysis based on contour classification and morphological operations
Nikos Vasilopoulos, Ergina Kavallieratou · 2016
In this paper, a technique appropriate for document image layout analysis is presented. The technique is appropriate for colored and complex layouts of newspapers and journals. It is a hybrid technique that makes use of the contour classification method and also applies morphological operators. Detailed experiments on 2000 scanned images from newspapers gave an accuracy of more than 95% while the computational cost per page is less than a half second.