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MMM 2011: Advances in Multimedia Modeling pp 146–156Cite as

Snap2Read: Automatic Magazine Capturing and Analysis for Adaptive Mobile Reading

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The rise of electronic book services and the prevalence of mobile devices reveal the needs for mobile reading and the booming business opportunities in e-book developments. However, incompatible e-book readers, non-uniformed e-book formats, or even limited screen resolution causes the inconvenience of reading documents on handheld devices. Meanwhile, it is difficult to read physical magazines that do not have the corresponding digital copies. Therefore, we propose a system, Snap2Read, that can automatically segment the captured document images (i.e., from the physical magazines) in mobile phones into readable patches (e.g. text, title, image), and then scale them into suitable size so that users can easily browse the digitalized magazine pages via the mobile phone with simple clicks.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

    Yu-Ming Hsu & Winston H. Hsu

  2. Institute of Networking and Multimedia, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

    Yen-Liang Lin & Winston H. Hsu

  3. Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan

    Brian Wang

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  1. National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

    Kuo-Tien Lee  & Jun-Wei Hsieh  & 

  2. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan

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  3. Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Hong-Yuan Mark Liao

  4. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Tsuhan Chen

  5. National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

    Chien-Cheng Tseng

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Hsu, YM., Lin, YL., Hsu, W.H., Wang, B. (2011). Snap2Read: Automatic Magazine Capturing and Analysis for Adaptive Mobile Reading. In: Lee, KT., Tsai, WH., Liao, HY.M., Chen, T., Hsieh, JW., Tseng, CC. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Modeling. MMM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6524. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17829-0_14

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