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Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries

IRCDL 2017: Digital Libraries and Archives pp 45–55Cite as

Indexing of Historical Document Images: Ad Hoc Dewarping Technique for Handwritten Text

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This work presents a research project, named XDOCS, aimed at extending to a much wider audience the possibility to access a variety of historical documents published on the web. The paper presents an overview of the indexing process that will be used to achieve the goal, focusing on the adopted dewarping technique. The proposed dewarping approach performs its task with the help of a transformation model which maps the projection of a curved surface to a 2D rectangular area. The novelty introduced with this work regards the possibility of applying dewarping to document images which contain both handwritten and typewritten text.

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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria “Enzo Ferrari”, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vivarelli 10, 41125, Modena, MO, Italy

    Federico Bolelli

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  1. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Costantino Grana

  2. University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

    Lorenzo Baraldi

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Bolelli, F. (2017). Indexing of Historical Document Images: Ad Hoc Dewarping Technique for Handwritten Text. In: Grana, C., Baraldi, L. (eds) Digital Libraries and Archives. IRCDL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 733. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68130-6_4

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