I’m learning computer vision and I’m using the Opencv and Python to write algorithms in this field of computer science. This field is very interesting because it involves computer science and math and also, it is necessary to have good ideas to solve problems.
Here, I will show my first algorithm in computer vision. It is to identifies paragraphs in a text image. It consider that the image have a white background and that the characters have a black color.
This algorithm have two main ideas: First, it removes blank lines and columns before finding the text. After this, it calculate the number of blank lines between no blank lines. The minimum and the maximum number of blank lines is computed. Though that the number of blank lines between two no blank lines is greather or equal 90%(maximum - minimum), we consider that we found a new paragraph.
Below, you can see an image with text to input in the algorithm:
And in the image below is possible to see the image with the identified paragraphs:
You can download the algorithm and get more details here