Practical Segmentation Methods for Logical and Geometric Layout Analysis to Improve Scanned PDF Accessibility to Vision Impaired

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Practical Segmentation Methods for Logical and Geometric Layout Analysis to Improve Scanned PDF Accessibility to Vision Impaired

The use of electronic documents has rapidly increased in recent decades and the PDF is one the most commonly used electronic document formats. A scanned PDF is an image and does not actually contain any text. For the vision–impaired user who is dependent upon a screen reader to access this informati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors:	Nazemi, Azadeh, Murray, Iain, McMeekin, David
Format:	Journal Article
Published:	SERSC Science & Engineering Research Support Society 2014
Subjects:	Optical character recognition (OCR) Vision-impaired PDF layout analysis
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10775

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