User-assisted archive document image analysis for digital library construction

Author

He, J. ; Downton, A.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

2003

fDate

3-6 Aug. 2003

Firstpage

498

Abstract

A configurable archive document image analysis system for digital library construction has been designed using rapid prototyping and top-down iterative development methods. This approach has been found to be essential in order to capture the curators´ expertise about existing card archive structures, content and databases. The design currently achieves about 93% correct segmentation of the required archive card fields overall, with 81.3% of all archive cards in a testset of 2000 images having all fields correctly segmented and labeled. Analysis of errors in the testset indicates that heavily-annotated cards and non-standard card formats comprise 5-10% of the overall archive, and a significant proportion of these are unlikely to be resolvable without curatorial intervention.

Keywords

digital libraries; document image processing; graphical user interfaces; image segmentation; archive database; archive document image analysis; card archive content; card archive structure; configurable document image analysis; digital library construction; rapid prototyping; top-down iterative development method; user-assisted document image analysis; Image analysis; Image converters; Image databases; Image segmentation; Laboratories; Multimedia systems; Optical character recognition software; Software libraries; Testing; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 2003. Proceedings. Seventh International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1960-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227715

Filename

1227715