imageprocessing-electronicpublications / leptbox

Select boxes in the image using leptonica.

LeptBox

Introduction

Select boxes (characters) in the image using leptonica.

Dependencies

• liblept3

How to use

• Download this repository

  git https://github.com/ImageProcessing-ElectronicPublications/leptbox.git

• Compile

  cd leptbox
  make

• Run

  Type:

    ./leptbox test.tif > test.tif.box
    Box count = 4780
  
    cat test.tif.box

    00000000,1256,40,30,37
    00000001,1327,40,31,40
    00000002,1287,41,35,36
    00000003,1365,41,32,39
    ...
    00004775,288,3337,3,17
    00004776,363,3337,18,20
    00004777,2224,3342,15,36
    00004778,2243,3343,15,36
    00004779,2262,3343,15,36

  Or:

    ./leptbox test.tif 50 100
    ...
    Box count = 129

References

• https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica
• https://github.com/ImageProcessing-ElectronicPublications/leptbox

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2020