Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chaudhuri, B. B.
• Garain, U.
• Nakano, Yasuaki
• Lee, Seong-Whan

Titel

An Approach for Processing Mathematical Expressions in Printed Document

Ist Teil von

• Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice, 1999, Vol.1655, p.310-321

Ort / Verlag

Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

1999

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this paper, we propose an approach for understanding mathematical expressions in printed document. The system consists of three main components namely (i) detection of mathematical expressions in a document, (ii) recognition of the symbols present in the expression and (iii) meaningful arrangement of the recognized symbols. However, detection of mathematical expressions is done through recognition of symbols. Moreover, some structural features of the expressions are also used for this purpose. For recognition of the symbols a hybrid of feature based and template based recognition techniques is used. The bounding-box coordinates and the size information of the symbols help to determine the spatial relationships among the symbols. A set of predefined grammar rules is used to form the meaningful symbol groups to properly arrange the symbols. Experiments conducted using these approaches on a large number of documents show high accuracy.