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Figure 12: The initial image used for the test. This im
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Figure 13: The image segmented by our algorithm TMMS.
Figure 14: All big regions are removed. Only the regions
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Figure 15: Remaining regions are classified by our system.
Text region (in green) are kept, non text region (in red) are
removed.
Figure 16: Isolated text regions are removed and remaining
regions are grouped.
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