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In this paper, two new algorithms to segment printed text into words and strings using direct and reverse distance transformation are presented. It is supposed that an original image does not contain graphics. The text segmentation into words and strings is performed on the basis of different threshold values, which either are determined a priori or calculated automatically.The segmentation result does not depend on a character size and a font type. It is defined by using distances between the neighbouring strings and the neighbouring words in the same string.
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Ablameyko, S., Okun, O. (1993). Printed text segmentation using distance transform. In: Chetverikov, D., Kropatsch, W.G. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 719. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57233-3_80
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