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Towards an omnilingual word retrieval system for ancient manuscripts

2009; Elsevier BV; Volume: 42; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.patcog.2009.01.026

1873-5142

Yann Leydier, Asma Ouji, Frank Lebourgeois, Hubert Emptoz,

Video Analysis and Summarization

In this article, we introduce the first method that allows the indexation of ancient manuscripts of any language and alphabet. We describe a word retrieval engine inspired by recent word-spotting advances on ancient manuscripts. Our approach does not need any layout segmentation and makes use of features fitted to any type of alphabet (Latin, Arabic, Chinese, etc.) and writing. The engine is tested on numerous documents and in several use-cases.