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Figure 1.8: A screen shot that shows part of the contents of an XML file created by
our software
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they can only be read and write using Aletheia[25] from Prima tools. The other
tool from Prima group is Prima Layout Evaluation[25] that compares the XML
output from a segmentation process with the ground truth data and provides
detailed evaluations on how they differ from each other. Due to this new tool,
we annotated every document with Aletheia and produced XML ground truth
documents for the purpose of evaluation.
1.6 Organization of this dissertation
Figure 1.9 gives an overview of the organization of this thesis, highlighting the
connection between different chapters of this thesis. This dissertation is organized
as follows:
Chapter 2 outlines the major areas of work in document page segmentation
and addresses key parts of text segmentation in document literature.
We describe our system with all the details in the span of four chapters.
Chapter 3 deals with various aspects of text/graphics separation of out method.
Text region detection is explained in chapter 4. Text lines and paragraphs detection
are accounted in chapters 5 and 6, respectively. We note the experiments
and results for each part of the method at the end of its own chapter.
Finally, in chapter 7 we give recommendation for future work.
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