Title Segmentation in Arabic Document Pages

Recent studies on text line segmentation have not focused on title segmentation in complex structure documents, which may represent the upper rows in each article of a document page. Many methods cannot correctly distinguish between the titles and the text, especially when it contains more than one title. In this paper, we discuss this problem and then present a straightforward and robust title segmentation approach. The proposed method was tested on PATD (Printed Arabic Text Database ) images and we achieved good results