A software tool for searching in binary text images

Abstract

In this paper we present a software tool for searching word images in scanned text documents. We consider that the document pages are represented as files in tif, jpg, gif,
png, bmp and other graphic file formats. Our experiments prove the efficiency of the proposed approach and show that such type of searching can be successful. Examples of using various languages are presented. Our software is user oriented and can be applied to any collection of scanned documents.