Figure Metadata Extraction from Digital Documents

• Published in: 2013 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition pp. 135 - 139
• Main Authors: Choudhury, Sagnik Ray, Mitra, Prasenjit, Kirk, Andi, Szep, Silvia, Pellegrino, Donald, Jones, Sue, Giles, C. Lee
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.08.2013
• Subjects: Accuracy; Data mining; Feature extraction; information extraction; Layout; Libraries; metadata based figure search; Portable document format; Search engines

Academic papers contain multiple figures (information graphics) representing important findings and experimental results. Automatic data extraction from such figures and classification of information graphics is not straightforward and a well studied problem in document analysis cite{4275059}. Also,...