Reference line extraction from form documents with complicated backgrounds

Dihua Xi, Seong Whan Lee

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Abstract

Form document analysis is one of the most essential tasks in document analysis and recognition. One of the most fundamental and crucial tasks is the extraction of the reference lines which are contained in almost all form documents. This paper presents an efficient methodology for the complicated grey-level form image processing. We construct a non-orthogonal wavelet with adjustable rectangle supports and offer algorithms for the extraction of the reference lines based on the strip growth method using the multiresolution wavelet sub images. We have compared this system with the popular Hough transform (HT) based and the novel orthogonal wavelet based methods. As shown in the experiments, the proposed algorithmdemonstrates high performance and fast speed for the complicated form images. This system is also effective for the form images with slight skew.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2003
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages1080-1084
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)0769519601
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2003
Event7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2003 - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: 2003 Aug 32003 Aug 6

Publication series

NameProceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR
Volume2003-January
ISSN (Print)1520-5363

Other

Other7th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2003
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period03/8/303/8/6

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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