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This article proposes a methodology based on a complex approach to analyze and to characterize graphical images extracted from old documents. After presenting a state of the art related to old documents characterization, we compare the approaches of historians and computer science researchers. Then, a novel method to describe images using a complex approach is proposed. In this one, we define the concepts of functional scales and functional units in the field of document analysis. They allow to globally describe an image with respect to its structure, sense, and elements. To validate our methodology, we detail three important steps in lettrine analysis: analysis, segmentation and description.
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Coustaty, M., Courboulay, V., Ogier, JM. (2012). Analyzing Old Documents Using a Complex Approach: Application to Lettrines Indexing. In: Guillet, F., Ritschard, G., Zighed, D. (eds) Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Management. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25838-1_9
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