Digital Library and Document Server

Colloque sur invitation. internationale.International audienceThis presentation describes the project MORE, developped in collaboration of JOUVE and the Royal Library ALBERT I. We propose a parser for library records allowing to restructure them electronically

Use of colour for hand-filled form analysis and recognition

Colour information in form analysis is currently under utilised. As technology has advanced and computing costs have reduced, the processing of forms in colour has now become practicable. This paper describes a novel colour-based approach to the extraction of filled data from colour form images. Images are first quantised to reduce the colour complexity and data is extracted by examining the colour characteristics of the images. The improved performance of the proposed method has been verified by comparing the processing time, recognition rate, extraction precision and recall rate to that of an equivalent black and white system

Form Analysis by Neural Classification of Cells

The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com/www.springerlink.comOur aim in this paper is to present a methodology for linearly combining multi neural classifier for cell analysis of forms. Features used for the classification are relative to the text orientation and to its character morphology. Eight classes are extracted among numeric, alphabetic, vertical, horizontal, capitals, etc. Classifiers are multi-layered perceptrons considering firstly global features and refining the classification at each step by looking for more precise features. The recognition rate of the classifiers for 3. 500 cells issued from 19 forms is about 91 %