Comprehensive Global Typography Extraction System for Electronic Book Documents

Author

Gao, Liangcai ; Tang, Zhi ; Lin, Xiaofan ; Qiu, Ruiheng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Peking Univ., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

16-19 Sept. 2008

Firstpage

615

Lastpage

621

Abstract

Book documents usually have consistent typographies throughout the whole book, including headers, footers, columns, text line directions, and fonts used in the each level of headings. Such document-level typography information is of great value for downstream document processing applications. This paper presents a document analysis system that can extract a comprehensive set of typographies used in book documents. The system consists of several components: recognition of fonts used in the body text and chapter headings; detection of page body area, headers and footers; detection of columns, text line direction and line spacing of body text. Page-association is employed in the system. The preliminary experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the system.

Keywords

character sets; document image processing; electronic publishing; information retrieval; information retrieval systems; text analysis; document analysis system; document processing application; electronic book document; font recognition; text line spacing; typography extraction system; Application software; Books; Computer science; Data mining; Electronic publishing; Image analysis; Information analysis; Sections; Text analysis; Text recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis Systems, 2008. DAS '08. The Eighth IAPR International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Nara

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3337-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DAS.2008.30

Filename

4670013