Publication
Text-Line Segmentation of Large Titles and Headings in Arabic Like Script
Riaz Ahmad; M. Zeshan Afzal; S. Faisal Rashid; Marcus Liwicki; Andreas Dengel
In: 2017 1st International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition - Workshop Booklet. IEEE International Workshop on Arabic Script Analysis and Recognition (ASAR-2017), April 3-5, Nancy, France, Pages 168-172, IEEE Xplore, 2017.
Abstract
Current approaches for text line segmentation often are either very specialized to specific domains or they depend on many parameters. More specifically, the extraction of text-lines with large sizes, i.e.,headings and titles int he Arabic like script could not be segmented correctly by state-of-the-art methods. In this work, we present a simple and robust text-line segmentation approach. The proposed method is tested on real Pashto scanned images and it outperforms a recent text independent state of the art method with respect to performance and time