Broken News: Making Newspapers Accessible to Print-Impaired. (arXiv:2206.10225v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)

Accessing daily news content still remains a big challenge for people with
print-impairment including blind and low-vision due to opacity of printed
content and hindrance from online sources. In this paper, we present our
approach for digitization of print newspaper into an accessible file format
such as HTML. We use an ensemble of instance segmentation and detection
framework for newspaper layout analysis and then OCR to recognize text elements
such as headline and article text. Additionally, we propose EdgeMask loss …

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