Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired
Documents use tables to communicate multidimensional information clearly, summarise and present data in an easy-to-interpret way. Tabular information in scanned PDF due to its nature without further processing is not accessible for vision-impaired people who use assistive technology such as screen r...
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2016
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| author | Nazemi, A. Murray, I. Fernaando, C. McMeekin, David |
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| description | Documents use tables to communicate multidimensional information clearly, summarise and present data in an easy-to-interpret way. Tabular information in scanned PDF due to its nature without further processing is not accessible for vision-impaired people who use assistive technology such as screen readers. The lack of access to table contents limits educational and workplace opportunities for people with vision impairment. They require a complete equivalent to access table. This paper describes techniques which apply to scanned PDF document for table detection, extraction and cell segmentation to retrieve cell contents and represent them in a navigable manner to vision-impaired.The output is in mark-up format and provides navigation ability to access content of a table. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-549892017-11-10T04:19:12Z Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired Nazemi, A. Murray, I. Fernaando, C. McMeekin, David Documents use tables to communicate multidimensional information clearly, summarise and present data in an easy-to-interpret way. Tabular information in scanned PDF due to its nature without further processing is not accessible for vision-impaired people who use assistive technology such as screen readers. The lack of access to table contents limits educational and workplace opportunities for people with vision impairment. They require a complete equivalent to access table. This paper describes techniques which apply to scanned PDF document for table detection, extraction and cell segmentation to retrieve cell contents and represent them in a navigable manner to vision-impaired.The output is in mark-up format and provides navigation ability to access content of a table. 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54989 10.5430/wje.v6n5p9 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sciedu Press fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Nazemi, A. Murray, I. Fernaando, C. McMeekin, David Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title | Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title_full | Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title_fullStr | Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title_full_unstemmed | Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title_short | Converting Optically Scanned Regular or Irregular Tables to a Standardised Markup Format to be Accessible to Vision-Impaired |
| title_sort | converting optically scanned regular or irregular tables to a standardised markup format to be accessible to vision-impaired |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54989 |