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Document page segmentation based on pattern spread analysis

Mitchell et al., 2000

Document ID
5870545890001355799
Author
Mitchell P
Yan H
Publication year
Publication venue
Optical Engineering

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This paper introduces an algorithm designed to segment black-and-white documents for the purpose of compression. A single document is segmented into two documents suitable for pattern-based and run-length-based compression. With some modification the same …
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