Questions tagged [layout-extraction]

According to Wikipedia, "The accurate recognition of Latin-script, typewritten text is now considered largely a solved problem on applications where clear imaging is available such as scanning of printed documents." However, it gives no citation. My…

Given a region defined by a rectangle and a url, is there any way to determine what elements lie within the given rectangle on the page at the given url? EDIT: Screen resolution, Font size, etc.. can all be set to reasonable defaults.

For a contract work, I need to digitalize a lot of old, scanned-graphic-only plenary debate protocol PDFs from the Federal Parliament of Germany. The problem is that most of these files have a two-column format: Sample Protocol…