Layout and analysis: Finding text, titles, and photos in digital images of newspaper pages

An important step in the analysis of printed documents is the segmentation and classification of blocks into categories such as photographs, titles, paragraphs, etc. The authors present an approach to enhance and combine two commonly used methods, a merging bottom-up approach and a cutting top down approach, to segment pages of a newspaper. The implementation of a layout analysis system as a preprocessing module for a commercial product is described