Physical library collections are valuable and long standing resources for knowledge and learning. However, managing books in a large bookshelf and finding books on it often leads to tedious manual work, especially for large book collections where books might be missing or misplaced. Recently, deep neural models, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) hav...

Historical and artistic handwritten books are valuable cultural heritage (CH) items, as they provide information about tangible and intangible cultural aspects from the past. Massive digitization projects have made these kind of data available to a world-wide population, and pose real challenges for automatic processing. In this scenario, document layout analysis plays a significant role, being...

Learning to read is often considered the most important skill taught in school because reading is a gateway to other learning. Many children struggle to acquire this fundamental skill. Suboptimal design of books for beginning readers may contribute to the difficulties children experience as close proximity between text and illustrations could promote attentional competition hampering literacy s...

The idea of a book being a collection of pages is so ingrained that modern electronic book readers often try to faithfully reproduce this feature — up to elaborate simulations of page turns. However, traditional pages are not necessary and often inconvenient in electronic books. It is often easier to scroll the text than to turn the pages, and text reflowing makes the use of folios a rather str...

In this study, it was aimed to determine the level of peritextual features Feridun Oral's children's books, readability texts, what subject and main ideas are. The research designed according holistic multi-case pattern qualitative methods. 13 storybooks from works Oral were used as data sources. Document analysis method collect in study. Both descriptive thematic content obtained As a result a...