Maps depict natural and human-induced changes on earth at a fine resolution for large
areas and over long periods of time. In addition, maps—especially historical maps—are …

In this paper, we consider the general problem of technical document interpretation, as
applied to the documents of the French Telephonic Operator, France Télécom. More …

Text labels in maps provide valuable geographic information by associating place names
with locations. This information from historical maps is especially important since historical …

A multi-step recognition process is developed for extracting compound forest cover
information from manually produced scanned historical topographic maps of the 19th …

Text labels in raster maps provide valuable geospatial information by associating
geographical names with geospatial locations. Although present commercial optical …

Text recognition is difficult from documents that contain multi-oriented, curved text lines of
various character sizes. This is because layout analysis techniques, which most optical …

In this study, the authors propose a framework SUGAMAN (Supervised and Unified
framework using Grammar and Annotation Model for Access and Navigation). SUGAMAN is …

Cartographic documents are considered to be unique storages for geospatial information;
storages basically for centuries since Ptolemy's Geographike Hyphegesis, if not earlier. This …

Different approaches have been proposed in the past to address the challenge of extracting
text from scholarly figures. However, until recently, no comparative evaluation of the different …

A project on topographic maps interpretation is being driven at IGN (Institut Géographique
National, France). The aim of this project is to provide a totally automatic interpretation with a …