Supervisor: Alan Sexton
Keywords: Final Year Undergraduate Students Only, Graphics, Document Image Analysis
Brief Description:
Even the best commercial OCR programs can rarely do more than
recognise diagrams in documents as images. However, it would
be nice to be able to analyse the image and turn it into an
editable vectorised image that could then be further modified
with a suitable diagram editing tool. Furthermore, the result
should require far less disk space than the original image and
could be printed at much higher resolution than the original
(without showing the grainy quality that printing bitmap
images at too high resolution incurs).
This requires scanning the diagram, analysing the results for
lines, curves, rectangles, circles, text etc. use some
intelligence to clean it up, appropriate form for further
editing in a diagram tool.
Special Equipment: No special equipment requirements
Special Software: No special software requirements
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