Text extraction in mixed-type documents is a pre-processing and necessary stage for many document applications. In mixed-type color documents, text, drawings and graphics appear with millions of di0erent colors. In many cases, text regions are overlaid onto drawings or graphics. In this paper, a new method to automatically detect and extract text in mixed-type color documents is presented. The ...

This paper examines the development of a multimedia document system based on m. Multimedia document systems involve the design of many complex components including editors, formatters, display systems and components to support the content types used (text, images, graphics etc.). By using T@ to do the formatting, using a standard text editor to enter the document text contents and define the do...

Readability of document images is one core issue when analysing historical documents. One way to improve the readability of those document images is image binarization. By separating the written text from its background, documents degraded by, e.g., stains or faded ink become better readable. Due to the large quantity of available historical document images, this binarization needs to be done e...

Information graphics (non-pictorial graphics such as bar charts or line graphs) are an important component of multimedia documents. Often such graphics convey information that is not contained elsewhere in the document. Thus document summarization must be extended to include summarization of information graphics. This paper addresses our work on graphic summarization. It argues that the message...