Reading order detection on handwritten documents

[EN] Recent advances in Handwritten Text Recognition and Document Layout Analysis have made it possible to convert digital images of manuscripts into electronic text. However, providing this text with the correct structure and context is still an open problem that needs to be solved to actually enab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Quirós, Lorenzo, Vidal, Enrique|||0000-0003-4579-5196
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)
Repositorio:RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/199583
Acceso en línea:https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/199583
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Document layout analysis
Reading order
Handwritten text recognition
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Sumario:[EN] Recent advances in Handwritten Text Recognition and Document Layout Analysis have made it possible to convert digital images of manuscripts into electronic text. However, providing this text with the correct structure and context is still an open problem that needs to be solved to actually enable extracting the relevant information conveyed by the text. The most important structure needed for a set of text elements is their reading order. Most of the studies on the reading order problem are rule-based approaches and focus on printed documents. Much less attention has been paid so far to handwritten text documents, where the problem becomes particularly important-and challenging. In this work, we propose a new approach to automatically determine the reading order of text regions and lines in handwritten text documents. The task is approached as a sorting problem where the order-relation operator is automatically learned from examples. We experimentally demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on three different datasets at different hierarchical levels.