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In this paper we present a formal approach to Document Analysis based on the notions of textons and texture. This theoretical framework is then used to define texture-based font style classifiers. Tests on scanned document pages indicate good performance of the classifiers.
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Schreyer, A., Suda, P., Maderlechner, G. (1999). A Formal Approach to Textons and Its Application to Font Style Detection. In: Lee, SW., Nakano, Y. (eds) Document Analysis Systems: Theory and Practice. DAS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1655. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48172-9_7
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