Gabor-based Kernel Self-optimization Fisher Discriminant for Optical Character Segmentation from Text-image-mixed Document

Abstract Recognizing optical character from document image of text mixed by figure has its wide applications such as document auto-reading. Segmenting the document region from text-mixed is a crucial step of this system. The segmentation procedure includes two stages, one is to extract the texture features of each block based on Gabor filter, and second is to classify the texture features for segmentation based kernel self-optimization Fisher classifier. Some experiments are implemented to testify the performance of the proposed method.