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With the progression of digitization it is very necessary to archive the Bangla newspaper as well as other Bangla documents. The first step of reading Bangla Newspaper is to detect headlines and column from multi column newspaper. But there is no such algorithm developed so far in Bangla OCR that can fully read Bangla Newspaper. In this paper we present an algorithmic approach for multi column & headline detection from Bangla newspaper as well as Bangla magazine. It can separate headlines from news and also can detect columns from multi column. This algorithm works based on empty space between headline- columns, column-column.
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Omee, F.Y., Shabbir Himel, M.S., Naser Bikas, M.A. (2013). An Algorithm for Headline and Column Separation in Bangla Documents. In: Abraham, A., Thampi, S. (eds) Intelligent Informatics. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 182. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32063-7_32
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