Layout Analysis of Handwritten Historical Documents for Searching the Archive of the Cabinet of the Dutch Queen

Author

Bulacu, Marius ; Van Koert, Rutger ; Schomaker, Lambert ; Van Der Zant, Tijn

Author_Institution

Univ. of Groningen, Groningen

Volume

1

fYear

2007

fDate

23-26 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

357

Lastpage

361

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the structure and the performance of a layout analysis system developed for processing the handwritten documents contained in a large historical collection of very high importance in the Netherlands. We introduce a method based on contour tracing that generates curvilinear separation paths between text lines in order to preserve the ascenders and descenders. Our methods are relevant to research on digitization and retrieval of handwritten historical documents.

Keywords

document image processing; edge detection; handwritten character recognition; history; image retrieval; information retrieval systems; Netherlands; archive searching; ascenders preservation; contour tracing; curvilinear separation paths; descenders preservation; handwritten historical document digitization; handwritten historical document retrieval; layout analysis; text lines; Cultural differences; Global communication; Government; Image analysis; Image color analysis; Image processing; Image retrieval; Performance analysis; Search engines; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007. ICDAR 2007. Ninth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Parana

ISSN

1520-5363

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2822-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378732

Filename

4378732