NDLI: Consensus-based table form recognition of low-quality historical documents

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Author	Nielson, H. Barrett, W.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	Given a set of low-quality line-delimited tabular documents of the same layout, we present a robust zoning algorithm which exploits both intra- and inter-document consensus to extract the structure of the table. The structure is captured in the form of a document template, that can then be snapped to a new document to perform automated “cookie cutter” data extraction. We also report a companion consensus-based algorithm for the classification of zone content as either machine print, handwriting or empty. Using scanned Census records from 1841 to 1881, the template is recovered with an efficiency of.076 [0, 1). Using consensus over about 10 documents from each data set, this error was reduced to.0076, or by 90%, which amounts to two missing line segments and one false positive. Similarly, the error for coverage was reduced from 0.098 to 0.016, or by 83%. Use of consensus also resulted in machine print classification accuracy of 100% for two of the three data sets. The classification error for handwriting averaged 0.1225 per document. By exploiting consensus within and between documents, automated zoning and labeling is greatly improved, providing field-level indexing of document content.
Starting Page	183
Ending Page	200
Page Count	18
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14332833
Journal	International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
Volume Number	8
Issue Number	2-3
e-ISSN	14332825
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2006-02-07
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Zoning Table recognition
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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