GREC'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Graphics recognition: achievements, challenges, and evolution
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This paper present a new method to extract shapes in drop caps and particularly the most important shape: Letter itself. This method relies on a combination of a Aujol and Chambolle algorithm first, and a Segmentation using a Zipf Law in a second step. This method can be enhanced as a three-step process: 1)Decomposition in layers 2)Segmentation using a Zipf Law 3)Selection of connected components to only emphasize the required information - letter itself.