sgt / lantern-pharmacy

parsing st petersburg's early xx century address books

Lantern-pharmacy

Segmenting

Important links (stuff to try out)

• OpenCV-Document-Scanner (cleaning up background & fluff, seems unsuitable for our purposes)
• noteshrink (cleaning up background & fluff, seems unsuitable for our purposes)
• textcleaner
• doc2text (uses dilation technique at some stage)

CV segmentation techniques

• Detecting text areas on a floor plan
• Apply morphology to clean up small white or black regions
• How to detect paragraphs in a text document
• How to detect the text above lines
• Segmenting image files with text (and pictures) into blocks