This paper describes a system for efficient indexing and retrieval of words in collections of document images. The proposed method is based on two main principles: unsupervised prototype clustering, and string encoding for efficient string matching. During indexing, a self organizing map (SOM) is trained so as to cluster together similar symbols (character-like objects) in a sub-set of the documents to be stored. By using the trained SOM the words in the whole collection can be stored and represented with a fixed-length description that can be easily compared in order to score most similar words in response to a user query. The system can be automatically adapted to different languages and font styles. The most appropriate applications are for the processing of old documents (18th and 19th Centuries) where current OCRs have more difficulties. Experimental results describe three application scenarios having various levels of difficulty for current OCR systems.


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    Title :

    Indexing and retrieval of words in old documents


    Contributors:
    Marinai, S. (author) / Marino, E. (author) / Soda, G. (author)


    Publication date :

    2003-01-01


    Size :

    381951 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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