Table Structure Interpretation and Neural Network Based Text Recognition for Conversion of Telephone Company Tabular Drawings

Atul K. Chhabra, Surekha Chandran, and Rangachar Kasturi*

NYNEX Science & Technology500 Westchester Avenue, White Plains, NY 10604atul@nynexst.com* Department of Computer Science & EngineeringThe Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802kasturi@pacific.cse.psu.edu

Abstract

We present a method for extracting structural information of a table and a method for recognizing hand-printed or drafted or machine-printed text from an image of a telephone company tabular drawing. The structure interpretation procedure uses horizontal and vertical lines and white streams as demarcation cues to identify each text block ...

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