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Semantics-Based Content Extraction in Typewritten Historical Documents

A. Antonacopoulos, D. Karatzas

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2005), Seoul, Korea, August 29 - September 1, 2005, IEEE, pp. 48-53

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This paper presents a flexible approach to extracting content from scanned historical documents using semantic information. The final electronic document is the result of a "digital historical document lifecycle" process, where the expert knowledge of the historian/archivist user is incorporated at different stages.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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