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ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
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This paper presents a page segmentation method which is based on perception phenomenon and displays the unequal importance of information in the visual field. The access of information is directly linked to the search of attractive areas. This search is based on the idea to free oneself from an unbending physical structuring and from a uniform vertical and horizontal scanning of the document, so as to classify the data in order of importance and interest. Using a space-variant geometry for the block selection, the page image, instead of being represented by the bitmap format, can be abstractly represented by the block format. This space-variant geometry lays a sound basis for elaborating the kinetic of the ocular shifting on a document, which provides not only a meaningless document representation in blocks, but shows a unified view corresponding to the integration of time-variant representations of the same visual field.