How to automatically identify text lines from projection plot?
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Faraz
el 18 de En. de 2014
Comentada: Bachtiar Muhammad Lubis
el 2 de Dic. de 2018
I have been reading about automatic text line recognition in Matlab and although there are many advanced methods to do this every paper mentions that the simplest way of detecting text lines is via horizontal projections. So I decided to try this method for myself.
I am very new to this and have hit a brick wall, I have reached a level beyond which I do not know how to proceed. This is what I have achieved so far:
I'm trying for a system that is language independent and only interested in text lines, so I chose Arabic text:
I used the function ``radon`` to get the projections.
img = rgb2gray(imread('arabic.jpg'));
[R, xp] = radon(bw_closed, [0 90]);
figure; plot(xp,R(:,2)); title('at angle 90');
This is the plot(projection)
So clearly the 5 peaks represent the 5 lines detected but how do I go from here to segmenting the original document?
Can anyone help me beyond this point? All the papers I read make no mention of how to proceed from this step, they just say that from the projections we have our detected lines.
What I'm asking is how, from the plot data can I tell matlab what is the line of text and what is the gab between lines?
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VIBHATH V B
el 3 de Mzo. de 2015
Hi.......... Can u send me the whole code for the above? What is 'bw-closed' here? My E-mail Id is : vibhathvb@gmail.com
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Image Analyst
el 18 de En. de 2014
I would just find where the black is in the profile
darkPixels = R < 20; % Threshold
% label
labeledRegions = bwlabel(darkPixels);
% Find centroids
measurements = regionprops(labeledRegions, 'Centroid');
% Get them into an array
allCentroids = [measurements.Centroid];
Now you can just crop out some line of text you're interested in, into a separate image:
thisLine = yourImage(allCentroids(k):allCentroids(k+1), :);
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Image Analyst
el 7 de Ag. de 2018
I don't think it has a name. It's just something I thought up. Something that basic usually doesn't have a name.
Bachtiar Muhammad Lubis
el 2 de Dic. de 2018
@ HJ Akhtar : i've read some papers and found that this is projection profile algorihm. just googling "image segmentation using projection profile".
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fawzi
el 25 de Sept. de 2014
what if the lines are curved ? in this case the projection is not useful. Can you help me in this problem
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Rinku
el 2 de En. de 2015
Editada: Walter Roberson
el 19 de Dic. de 2015
try this code;
img = rgb2gray(imread('arabic.jpg'));
[R, xp] = radon(bw_closed, [0 90]);
figure; plot(xp,R(:,2)); title('at angle 90');
r = R(:,2);
r=r(92:391); % your image region
blank = r < 3; % region without text
[labeled, n] = bwlabel(blank);
C = regionprops(labeled, 'Centroid'); % find the centers of blank regions
for i=1:length(C)-1
subplot(length(C)-1,1,i)
imshow(img(C(i).Centroid(2):C(i+1).Centroid(2),:));
end
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Urooba zaki
el 22 de En. de 2018
respected sir this code shows an error... i think the function file is missing ... plz reply Undefined function or variable 'bw_closed'.
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