For the purpose of text recognition (OCR) and in order to avoid noise being introduced from texts outside the printspace, one first needs to detect the border of the printed frame. This is done by a binary pixel-wise-segmentation model trained on a dataset of 2,000 documents where about 1,200 of them come from the [dhSegment](https://github.com/dhlab-epfl/dhSegment/) project (you can download the dataset from [here](https://github.com/dhlab-epfl/dhSegment/releases/download/v0.2/pages.zip)) and the remainder having been annotated in SBB. For border detection, the model needs to be fed with the whole image at once rather than separated in patches.
### Layout detection
As a next step, text regions need to be identified by means of layout detection. Again a pixel-wise segmentation model was trained on 131 labeled images from the SBB digital collections, including some data augmentation. Since the target of this tool are historical documents, we consider as main region types text regions, separators, images, tables and background - each with their own subclasses, e.g. in the case of text regions, subclasses like header/heading, drop capital, main body text etc. While it would be desirable to detect and classify each of these classes in a granular way, there are also limitations due to having a suitably large and balanced training set. Accordingly, the current version of this tool is focussed on the main region types background, text region, image and separator.
### Textline detection
#### Textline detection
In a subsequent step, binary pixel-wise segmentation is used again to classify pixels in a document that constitute textlines. For textline segmentation, a model was initially trained on documents with only one column/block of text and some augmentation with regard to scaling. By fine-tuning the parameters also for multi-column documents, additional training data was produced that resulted in a much more robust textline detection model.
### Image enhancement
#### Image enhancement
This is an image to image model which input was low quality of an image and label was actually the original image. For this one we did not have any GT, so we decreased the quality of documents in SBB and then feed them into model.
### Scale classification
#### Scale classification
This is simply an image classifier which classifies images based on their scales or better to say based on their number of columns.
### Heuristic methods
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## Model description
### Model description
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## How to use
### How to use
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* This tool is actively being developed. If problems occur, or the performance does not meet your expectations, we welcome your feedback via [issues](https://github.com/qurator-spk/eynollah/issues).
### `--full-layout` vs `--no-full-layout`
####`--full-layout` vs `--no-full-layout`
Here are the difference in elements detected depending on the `--full-layout`/`--no-full-layout` command line flags:
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| marginals / text line | x | x |
| image region | x | x |
### Use as OCR-D processor
#### Use as OCR-D processor
Eynollah ships with a CLI interface to be used as [OCR-D](https://ocr-d.de) processor. In this case, the source image file group with (preferably) RGB images should be used as input (the image provided by `@imageFilename` is passed on directly):
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