An interactive annotation tool for indexing Historical manuscripts

Author

Khader, Haneen ; Al-Marridi, Abeer ; Alpona, Hena ; Kunhoth, Suchithra ; Hassaine, Abdulaali ; Al-Maadeed, Somaya

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Qatar Univ., Doha, Qatar

fYear

2014

fDate

18-20 Jan. 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

When a huge collection of digitized old manuscripts are obtained as a part of their preservation, an appropriate indexing technique is essential to search through them. In this paper, we have proposed a novel tool to assist the indexing of offline handwritten historical documents. The annotation tool we have developed has a semi-automatic interface that can deal with possible errors in the text segmentation. We have given a full description and analysis of our tool which can be used for English as well as Arabic documents with different performance rates.

Keywords

document handling; history; indexing; natural language processing; text analysis; Arabic documents; English documents; digitized old manuscript collection; historical manuscript indexing; interactive annotation tool; offline handwritten historical document indexing; semiautomatic interface; text segmentation; Handwriting recognition; Image recognition; Image resolution; Image segmentation; Indexing; Manuals; XML; annotation; binarization; historical manuscript; indexing; segmentation; semi-automatic; word spotting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Applications & Research (WSCAR), 2014 World Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-2805-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSCAR.2014.6916838

Filename

6916838