Combination of OCR engines for page segmentation based on performance evaluation

Abstract

In this paper we present a method to improve the performance of individual page segmentation engines based on the combination of the output of several engines. The rules of combination are designed after analyzing the results of each individual method. This analysis is performed using a performance evaluation framework that aims at characterizing each method according to its strengths and weaknesses rather than computing a single performance measure telling which is the "best" segmentation method.