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Semantics-Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents

Semantics-Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents
Semantics-Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents
This paper presents a flexible approach to extracting content from scanned historical documents using semantic information. The final electronic document is the result of a "digital historical document lifecycle" process, where the expert knowledge of the historian/archivist user is incorporated at different stages. Results show that such a conversion strategy aided by (expert) user-specified semantic information and which enables the processing of individual parts of the document in a specialised way, produces superior (in a variety of significant ways) results than document analysis and understanding techniques devised for contemporary documents.
Historical documents, digital libraries, text enchancement, image analysis
48-53
Antonacopoulos, Apostolos
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Karatzas, Dimosthenis
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Antonacopoulos, Apostolos
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Karatzas, Dimosthenis
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Antonacopoulos, Apostolos and Karatzas, Dimosthenis (2005) Semantics-Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents. 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005), Seoul, Korea. pp. 48-53 .

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Abstract

This paper presents a flexible approach to extracting content from scanned historical documents using semantic information. The final electronic document is the result of a "digital historical document lifecycle" process, where the expert knowledge of the historian/archivist user is incorporated at different stages. Results show that such a conversion strategy aided by (expert) user-specified semantic information and which enables the processing of individual parts of the document in a specialised way, produces superior (in a variety of significant ways) results than document analysis and understanding techniques devised for contemporary documents.

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Published date: 2005
Additional Information: Event Dates: August 29 - Semptember 1, 2005
Venue - Dates: 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005), Seoul, Korea, 2005-08-29
Keywords: Historical documents, digital libraries, text enchancement, image analysis
Organisations: Electronics & Computer Science

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Local EPrints ID: 263542
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/263542
PURE UUID: b2754228-5890-414a-9fab-ab4687f9ef34

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Date deposited: 19 Feb 2007
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 07:34

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Author: Apostolos Antonacopoulos
Author: Dimosthenis Karatzas

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