Published January 1, 2011 | Version v1
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A New Approach to Water Flow Algorithm for Text Line Segmentation

  • 1. University of Belgrade, Bor, Serbia
  • 2. College of Applied Technical Science Niš, Niš, Serbia

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This paper proposes a new approach to water flow algorithm for the text line segmentation. Original method assumes hypothetical water flows under a few specified angles to the document image frame from left to right and vice versa. As a result, unwetted image frames are extracted. These areas are of major importance for text line segmentation. Method modifications mean extension values of water flow angle and unwetted image frames function enlargement. Results are encouraging due to text line segmentation improvement which is the most challenging process stage in document image processing.

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