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A system is presented enabling blind people to understand and fill in printed forms. Text and graphic components are separated from each other, the first one presented by a Braille-line or alternatively via synthetic speech and the second one by a special swelling paper supplemented with markers for text events and markers for recognized fill in places. Furthermore a new method for the interpretation of complex structured images is described, which is used in the application mentioned above. This method takes advantage of a compositorial hierarchy of objects to be recognized and makes use of models given as relational structures. A convenient language for model formulation is introduced. First results are demonstrated.
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Ihle, T., Schirmer, H., Fuchs, S. (1995). Interpretation of printed forms for blind people. In: Hlaváč, V., Šára, R. (eds) Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 970. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60268-2_343
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