Using Page Breaks for Book Structuring

We report on the XRCE participation to the Structure Extraction task of the INEX/ICDAR Book Structure Extraction 2011. We wanted to assess a simple method for structuring a book: using leading and trailing page whitespace. The detection of such large whitespace occurring at the top of leading pages and at the bottom of trailing pages is based on the detection of the type area zone. Evaluation shows as expected a very good precision. Since this approach aims at detecting high level book structures (parts, chapters), structures not marked a page break are not detected (thus a lower recall).

Authors and Affiliations

1. Xerox Research Centre Europe, 6 Chemin de Maupertuis, F-38240, Meylan, France

   Hervé Déjean

Editors and Affiliations

1. Faculty of Science and Technology, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), PO Box 2434, 4001, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

   Shlomo Geva

2. Archives and Information Studies/Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012XT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

   Jaap Kamps

3. Cluster of Excellence, , , Multimodal Computing and Interaction Cluster of Excellence, Multimodal Computing and Interaction, Saarland University, Campus E1, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

   Ralf Schenkel

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