Anveshak - A Groundtruth Generation Tool for Foreground Regions of Document Images

TL;DR

Anveshak is a user-friendly tool that facilitates efficient annotation of foreground regions in document images, producing metadata-rich outputs for use in document analysis tasks.

Contribution

The paper introduces a graphical interface for foreground pixel annotation in document images, enabling customizable labeling and metadata generation for improved document image analysis.

Findings

Efficient annotation of foreground regions achieved.

Metadata output supports diverse document analysis applications.

User interaction simplifies complex labeling tasks.

Abstract

We propose a graphical user interface based groundtruth generation tool in this paper. Here, annotation of an input document image is done based on the foreground pixels. Foreground pixels are grouped together with user interaction to form labeling units. These units are then labeled by the user with the user defined labels. The output produced by the tool is an image with an XML file containing its metadata information. This annotated data can be further used in different applications of document image analysis.