Method for Real Time Text Extraction of Digital Manga Comic

International Journal of Image Processing

Herman Tolle¹  Kohei Arai¹ 

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关键词: E-comic;    Manga;    Image Analysis;    Text Extraction;    Text Recognition;   

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来源: Computer Science Journals

【 摘 要 】

Manga is one of popular item in Japan and also in the rest of the world. Hundreds of manga bookis printed everyday in Japan, and some of printed manga book is digitized into web content forreading comic through the internet. People then make translation of Japanese language in mangainto other language to share enjoy of reading manga for non Japanese reader. However, peoplemake translation of the text on printed comic book (they call it scanlation) in manually becausethere is no automatic method for translate comic text image into any other language. Thechallenge in extracting Japanese character in manga is how to detect comic balloon and extracttext in vertical direction as Japanese classic writing direction is top down and right to left.Several research projects [1-4] proposed method for text extraction from images but not specificfor extraction from comic image. There are two base methods for text extraction, using regionbased method and texture based method. In [5], propose the concept of automatic mobile contentconversion using semantic image analysis that include comic text extraction, but this paper didnot explain the details for text extraction. Also, Yamada [6] proposed method for comic imagedecomposition for reading comic on mobile phone that including comic text extraction but notdetails on comic text extraction. The conventional method assuming extraction process in offlineway and using scanned comic image. In the internet and mobility era, we need advance methodfor extraction text in online way and automatically

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