Image based typographic analysis of documents

Author

Doermann, David S. ; Furuta, Richard

Author_Institution

Center for Autom. Res., Maryland Univ., College Park, MD, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

20-22 Oct 1993

Firstpage

769

Lastpage

773

Abstract

An approach to image based typographic analysis of documents is provided. The problem requires a spatial understanding of the document layout as well as knowledge of the proper syntax. The system performs a page synthesis from the stream of formatting commands defined in a DVI file. Since the two-dimensional relationships between document components are not explicit in the page language, the authors develop a representation which preserves the two-dimensional layout, the read-order and the attributes of document components. From this hierarchical representation of the page layout we extract and analyze relevant typographic features such as margins, line and character spacing, and figure placement

Keywords

document image processing; feature extraction; page description languages; spatial data structures; 2D relationships; DVI file; character spacing; data representation; document component attributes; document layout; feature extraction; figure placement; formatting commands; hierarchical representation; image based typographic analysis; line spacing; margins; page language; page layout; page synthesis; read-order; spatial understanding; syntax; Automation; Computer errors; Graphics; Image analysis; Layout; Page description languages; Printers; Printing; Text analysis; Typesetting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1993., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tsukuba Science City

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4960-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395624

Filename

395624