Title :
VisualPage: Towards large scale analysis of nineteenth-century print culture
Author :
Audenaert, Neal ; Houston, Natalie M.
Author_Institution :
Digital Archives, Res. & Technol. Services, Inst. for Digital Chrisitian Heritage, College Station, TX, USA
Abstract :
The large scale digitization of cultural heritage documents offers humanities researchers the opportunity to work with very large document collections. This paper describes VisualPage, a prototype system for the extraction and analysis of the visual features of digitized printed texts, such as page layout.
Keywords :
document handling; history; VisualPage; cultural heritage documents; humanities researchers; large scale analysis; large scale digitization; print culture; very large document collections; cultural heritage materials; document image analysis; mise-en-page; poetry;
Conference_Titel :
Big Data, 2013 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Silicon Valley, CA
DOI :
10.1109/BigData.2013.6691665
