LAREX - A semi-automatic open-source Tool for Layout Analysis and Region Extraction on Early Printed Books

Christian Reul, Uwe Springmann, Frank Puppe
1/20/2017
cs.CVcs.AI

Official code: OCR4all/LAREX (201 stars, MIT, last commit 2026-10-20).

Abstract

A semi-automatic open-source tool for layout analysis on early printed books is presented. LAREX uses a rule based connected components approach which is very fast, easily comprehensible for the user and allows an intuitive manual correction if necessary. The PageXML format is used to support integration into existing OCR workflows. Evaluations showed that LAREX provides an efficient and flexible way to segment pages of early printed books.

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@article{reul2017larex,
  title  = {LAREX - A semi-automatic open-source Tool for Layout Analysis and Region Extraction on Early Printed Books},
  author = {Christian Reul and Uwe Springmann and Frank Puppe},
  year   = {2017},
  eprint = {1701.07396},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07396}
}

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