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This paper presents a new method to extract areas of interest in drop caps and particularly the most important shape: Letter itself. This method relies on a combination of a Aujol and Chambolle algorithm and a Segmentation using a Zipf Law and can be enhanced as a three-step process: 1)Decomposition in layers 2)Segmentation using a Zipf Law 3)Selection of the connected components.
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Coustaty, M., Dubois, S., Ogier, JM., Menard, M. (2010). Segmenting and Indexing Old Documents Using a Letter Extraction. In: Ogier, JM., Liu, W., Lladós, J. (eds) Graphics Recognition. Achievements, Challenges, and Evolution. GREC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6020. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13728-0_13
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