Automatic Extraction of Data from 2-D Plots in Documents

Xiaonan Lu, James Z. Wang, Prasenjit Mitra and C. Lee Giles
The Pennsylvania State University
Abstract:

Two-dimensional (2-D) plots in digital documents contain important information. Often, the results of scientific experiments and performance of businesses are summarized using plots. Although 2-D plots are easily understood by human users, current search engines rarely utilize the information contained in the plots to enhance the results returned in response to queries posed by endusers. We propose an automated algorithm for extracting information from line curves in 2-D plots. The extracted information can be stored in a database and indexed to answer end-user queries and enhance search results. We have collected 2-D plot images from a variety of resources and tested our extraction algorithms. Experimental evaluation has demonstrated that our method can produce results suitable for real world use.


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Citation: Xiaonan Lu, James Z. Wang, Prasenjit Mitra, and C. Lee Giles, ``Automatic Extraction of Data from 2-D Plots in Documents,'' Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 188-192, Parana, Brazil, September 2007.

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