text_line_slant
— Determines the slant of characters of a text line or paragraph.
text_line_slant(Region, Image : : CharHeight, SlantFrom, SlantTo : SlantAngle)
text_line_slant
determines the slant of a single text line or a
paragraph.
The parameter Region
specifies the area of the image in which the
text lines are located. The Region
is only used to reduce the
working area. To determine the slant, the gray values inside that area
are used. The text lines are segmented by the operator
text_line_slant
itself. If more than one region is passed, the
numerical values of the orientation angle are stored in a tuple, the
position of a value in the tuple corresponding to the position of the
region in the input tuple.
CharHeight
specifies the approximately high of the existing text
lines in the region Region
. It's assumed, that the text lines are
darker than the background.
The search area can be restricted by the parameters SlantFrom
and
SlantTo
, whereby also the runtime of the operator is influenced.
With the calculated slant angle SlantAngle
and operators for
affine transformations, the slant can be removed from the characters. This
may simplify the character separation for OCR applications. To work
correctly all characters of a region should have nearly the same slant.
Region
(input_object) region(-array) →
object
Area of text lines.
Image
(input_object) singlechannelimage →
object (byte / uint2)
Input image.
CharHeight
(input_control) integer →
(integer)
Height of the text lines.
Default value: 25
Typical range of values: 1
≤
CharHeight
Restriction: CharHeight >= 1
SlantFrom
(input_control) angle.rad →
(real)
Minimum slant of the characters
Default value: -0.523599
Typical range of values: -0.785398
≤
SlantFrom
≤
0.785398
Restriction: - pi / 4 <= SlantFrom && SlantFrom <= SlantTo
SlantTo
(input_control) angle.rad →
(real)
Maximum slant of the characters
Default value: 0.523599
Typical range of values: -0.785398
≤
SlantTo
≤
0.785398
Restriction: - pi / 4 <= SlantTo && SlantTo <= pi / 4
SlantAngle
(output_control) angle.rad(-array) →
(real)
Calculated slant of the characters in the region
hom_mat2d_identity(HomMat2DIdentity) read_image(Image,'dot_print_slanted') * correct slant text_line_slant(Image,Image,50,rad(-45),rad(45),SlantAngle) hom_mat2d_slant(HomMat2DIdentity,-SlantAngle,'x',0,0,HomMat2DSlant) affine_trans_image(Image,Image,HomMat2DSlant,'constant','true')
If the input parameters are set correctly, the operator
text_line_slant
returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE).
Otherwise an exception will be raised.
hom_mat2d_slant
,
affine_trans_image
,
affine_trans_image_size
Foundation