Multi-modal page stream segmentation with convolutional neural networks.

In recent years, (retro-)digitizing paper-based files became a major undertaking for private and public archives as well as an important task in electronic mailroom applications. As first steps, the workflow usually involves batch scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) of documents. In the...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 127 - 151
Autores principales: Wiedemann, Gregor, Heyer, Gerhard
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2021
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          Department of Computer Science, Hamburg University, Vogt-Kölln-Str. 30, 22527, Hamburg, Germany
          Department of Computer Science, Leipzig University, Augustusplatz 9, 04109, Leipzig, Germany
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          Convolutional neural networks
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        Convolutional neural nets
        Digital mailroom
        Document flow segmentation
        Page stream segmentation
        Text classification
      ab: In recent years, (retro-)digitizing paper-based files became a major undertaking for private and public archives as well as an important task in electronic mailroom applications. As first steps, the workflow usually involves batch scanning and optical character recognition (OCR) of documents. In the case of multi-page documents, the preservation of document contexts is a major requirement. To facilitate workflows involving very large amounts of paper scans, page stream segmentation (PSS) is the task to automatically separate a stream of scanned images into coherent multi-page documents. In a digitization project together with a German federal archive, we developed a novel approach for PSS based on convolutional neural networks (CNN). As a first project, we combine visual information from scanned images with semantic information from OCR-ed texts for this task. The multi-modal combination of features in a single classification architecture allows for major improvements towards optimal document separation. Further to multimodality, our PSS approach profits from transfer-learning and sequential page modeling. We achieve accuracy up to 95% on multi-page documents on our in-house dataset and up to 93% on a publicly available dataset.
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