A Fast Algorithm for Bottom-Up Document Layout Analysis

This paper describes a new bottom-up method for document layout analysis. The algorithm was implemented in the CLIDE (Chemical Literature Data Extraction) system, but the method described here is suitable for a broader range of documents. It is based on Kruskal's algorithm and uses a special distance-metric between the components to construct the physical page structure. The method has all the major advantages of bottom-up systems: independence from different text spacing and independence from different block alignments. The algorithms computational complexity is reduced to linear by using heuristics and path-compression.

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