TY - JOUR T1 - Table-Form Structure Analysis Based on Box-Driven Reasoning JF - IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems Y1 - 1996 A1 - Hori,Osamu A1 - David Doermann AB - Table-form document structure analysis is an important problem in the document processing domain. This paper presents a new method called Box-Driven Reasoning (BDR) to robustly analyze the structure of table-form documents that include touching characters and broken lines. Real documents are copied repeatedly and overlaid with printed data, resulting in characters that touch cells and lines that are broken. Most previous methods employ a line-oriented approach, but touching characters and broken lines make the procedure fail at an early stage. BDR deals with regions directly in contrast with other previous methods and a reduced resolution image is introduced to supplement information deteriorated by noise. Experimental tests show that BDR reliably recognizes cells and strings in document images with touching characters and broken lines. VL - E79-D SN - , 0916-8532 UR - http://search.ieice.org/bin/summary.php?id=e79-d_5_542 CP - 5 ER -