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TOC Structure Extraction from OCR-ed Books

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Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure (INEX 2011)

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This paper addresses the task of extracting the table of contents (TOC) from OCR-ed books. Since the OCR process misses a lot of layout and structural information, it is incapable of enabling navigation experience. A TOC is needed to provide a convenient and quick way to locate the content of interest. In this paper, we propose a hybrid method to extract TOC, which is composed of rule-based method and SVM-based method. The rule-based method mainly focuses on discovering the TOC from the books with TOC pages while the SVM-based method is employed to handle with the books without TOC pages. Experimental results indicate that the proposed methods obtain comparable performance against the other participants of the ICDAR 2011 Book structure extraction competition.

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  1. College of Information Technical Science, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 300071

    Caihua Liu & Jie Liu

  2. College of Software, Nankai University, Tianjin, China, 300071

    Jiajun Chen, Xiaofeng Zhang & Yalou Huang

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  1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), PO Box 2434, 4001, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Shlomo Geva

  2. Archives and Information Studies/Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012XT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Jaap Kamps

  3. Cluster of Excellence, , , Multimodal Computing and Interaction Cluster of Excellence, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarland University, Campus E1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Ralf Schenkel

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Liu, C., Chen, J., Zhang, X., Liu, J., Huang, Y. (2012). TOC Structure Extraction from OCR-ed Books. In: Geva, S., Kamps, J., Schenkel, R. (eds) Focused Retrieval of Content and Structure. INEX 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7424. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35734-3_8

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