Title
Detection And Location Of Multicharacter Sequences In Lines Of Imaged Text
Abstract
A system for detecting and locating user-specified search strings, or phrases, in lines of imaged text is described. The phrases may be single words or multiple words, and may contain a partially specified word. The imaged text can be composed of a number of different fonts and graphics. Textlines in a deskewed image are hypothesized using multiresolution morphology. For each textline, the baseline, topline and x-height are identified by simple statistical methods and then used to normalize each textline bounding box. Columns of pixels in the resulting bounding box serve as feature vectors. One hidden Markov model is created for each user specified phrase and another represents all text and graphics other than the user-specified phrases. Phrases are identified using Viterbi decoding on a spotting network created from the models. The operating point of the system can be varied to trade off the percentage of words correctly spotted and the percentage of false alarms. Results are given using a subset of the UW English Document lmage Database I. (C) 1996 SPIE and lS&T.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1117/12.228768
JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC IMAGING
Keywords
Field
DocType
hidden markov model,feature vector,viterbi decoder
Graphics,String searching algorithm,Feature vector,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Phrase,Speech recognition,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Hidden Markov model,Spotting,Minimum bounding box
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
1
1017-9909
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.73
10
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francine Chen11218153.96
Dan S. Bloomberg29816.94
Lynn Wilcox31330180.16