Complex layout analysis based on contour classification and morphological operations

In this paper, a hybrid technique for complex layout analysis is presented. Morphological operations are applied to both the foreground and the background, in order to connect neighboring regions and detect separator lines and columns respectively. Contour tracing is used for the extraction of shape and size information and classification of the connected components. Evaluated on the RDCL-2015 dataset, the method achieved state-of-art results in less than three seconds per page.