Supervised Text Region Identification on Historical Documents
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We present multi-column text region identification support for Ocular, the unsupervised historical printed document transcription project of Berg-Kirkpatrick et. al (2013). We use structured prediction with rich features defined on the input document and incorporate a transition model based on prior document layout assumptions. Our model is trained using a structured-SVM objective on a randomly selected set of historical documents from The Proceedings of Old Bailey corpus. For learning, we use loss-augmented Viterbi decoding with a weighted Hamming loss function. We present our suite of features that achieve a 37.4 F1 text score and 39.4 F1 non-text improvement in text region identification over the Ocular baseline text cropper.
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