Leung Abstract A system is proposed which analyses the layout of a Chinese newspaper article, segments it into blocks of text, headline, and graphics and links up the text blocks in the correct order. The text blocks are then linked up in the correct order using some built-in rules which conform with the convention of Chinese textline arrangements.
Experiments show that the system performs satisfactorily even for complicated layout styles.
It is useful for saving a lot of the efforts of the operator. When it is coupled to a character segmentation and recognition system, a practically useful reading machine can be obtained. Keywords Chinese newspaper, Chinese document, document segmentation, layout analysis, reading machine, optical character reader. Back to home page.