Automatic Feature Extraction and Recognition for Digital Access of Books of the Renaissance

Authors:
F. Muge;Isabel Granado;M. Mengucci;Pedro Pina;Vitorino Ramos;N. Sirakov;J. R. Caldas Pinto;A. Marcolino;Mário Ramalho;P. Vieira;A. Maia do Amaral
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Venue:
ECDL '00 Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries
Year:
2000

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Abstract

Antique printed books constitute a heritage that should be preserved and used. With novel digitising techniques is now possible to have these books stored in digital format and accessible to a wider public. However it remains the problem of how to use them. DEBORA (Digital accEss to BOoks of the RenAissance) is a European project that aims to develop a system to interact with these books through world-wide networks. The main issue is to build a database accessible through client computers. That will require to built accompanying metadata that should characterise different components of the books as illuminated letters, banners, figures and key words in order to simplify and speed up the remote access. To solve these problems, digital image analysis algorithms regarding filtering, segmentation, separation of text from non-text, lines and word segmentation and word recognition were developed. Some novel ideas are presented and illustrated through examples.