Processamento e Navegação por Tópicos em Imagens de Páginas de Jornais Históricos

Abstract

This paper presents the architecture and operation of a HistoricalNewspaper Page Image Topic Navigation System designed tofacilitate the access and use of social and historical research tothe historical newspaper collection. The system consists of fourmodules which are: Text Subimage Segmentation, Text Extractionand Preprocessing, Topic Network Extraction, and Document Viewingand Retrieval Interface. The algorithmic and technological approachesof each module are described and the initial test resultsare presented.