The document discusses tools developed by the National Center for Scientific Research (NCSR) called IMPACT tools for detecting borders, removing borders, and splitting pages of document images. It provides evaluation results for the IMPACT tools and other tools on two large datasets showing the IMPACT tools achieve high precision, recall, and F-measure for border removal and page splitting tasks.

1. IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR IMPACT Final Conference 2011 24-25 October 2011, London, UK B. Gatos Computational Intelligence Laboratory Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications National Center for Scientific Research ( NCSR ) "Demokritos" GR-153 10 Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

2. Border_Detection_v4 [0|1] [infile] [outfile1] [outfile2] parameter [0|1]: 0 -> only border removal, 1 -> border removal & page split parameter [infile]: Input filename (b/w or gray scale image) parameters [outfile1] [outfile2]: Output filenames (b/w or gray scale image) + web service implementation IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK

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9. 1 (Bad) 2 3 4 5 (Good) Av=4.3 Av=3.6 1. Final image almost destroyed! 2. Big part of text is missing 3. Small part of text is missing 4. All text is there, border not completely removed. 5. All text is there, border has been completely removed. 1. Final image almost destroyed! 2. Big part of text is missing 3. Small part of text is missing 4. All text is there, border not completely removed. 5. All text is there, border has been completely removed. 21709 images to test border removal 3003 newspaper images to test border removal

10. 1 (Bad) 2 3 4 5 (Good) Av=3.3 1. Page split fails! 2 Page split with problems. 3. Page split is correct, large parts of noise remains or text is removed 4. Page split is correct, small parts of noise remains or text is removed 5. Page split is correct, only black noise has been removed IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK 3009 images to test page split (results on 50%)

11. IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK SET A: 38718 randomly selected historical images BL BNE BNF BSB JSI NLB ONB TOTAL #images 3632 11126 12251 4784 4430 706 1789 38718 IMPACT Prec (%) 99.49 99.89 98.88 98.10 98.91 99.86 97.29 99.08 Rec (%) 98.83 99.26 99.40 96.07 99.06 99.73 97.82 98.79 FM (%) 99.16 99.58 99.14 97.07 98.99 99.79 97.55 98.93 D.X Le Prec (%) 94.98 99.68 98.67 97.70 97.35 99.80 97.19 98.30 Rec (%) 99.31 90.65 99.24 95.58 99.21 99.81 99.19 96.63 FM (%) 97.10 94.95 98.26 96.63 98.27 99.80 98.18 97.30 BookRestorer Prec (%) 91.13 96.88 98.08 97.29 94.50 99.79 95.12 96.47 Rec (%) 99.56 91.57 99.77 97.43 99.40 99.85 99.61 97.06 FM (%) 95.16 94.15 98.91 97.36 96.89 99.82 97.31 96.76 WiseBook Prec (%) 86.93 88.57 91.20 95.76 90.69 99.46 80.37 90.20 Rec (%) 98.37 99.47 99.10 96.40 97.29 98.45 98.63 98.56 FM (%) 92.30 93.71 94.99 96.08 93.87 98.95 88.57 94.20 ScanFix Prec (%) 81.65 92.87 91.29 95.62 91.00 99.24 84.52 91.17 Rec (%) 94.97 98.66 98.66 97.81 95.66 80.81 96.98 97.46 FM (%) 87.81 95.68 94.83 96.70 93.27 89.08 90.32 94.21

12. IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK SET B: 22383 images with noisy black border BL BNE BNF BSB JSI NLB ONB TOTAL #images 1631 7543 7677 2417 1416 315 1384 22383 IMPACT Prec (%) 98.94 99.88 98.29 96.86 98.01 99.98 96.63 98.62 Rec (%) 98.18 99.27 99.26 93.14 99.15 99.87 98.24 98.46 FM (%) 98.56 99.57 98.77 94.96 98.58 99.92 97.43 98.54 D.X Le Prec (%) 88.89 99.58 97.98 96.08 93.20 99.85 96.48 97.28 Rec (%) 99.05 86.64 98.86 91.53 99.09 99.97 99.06 94.01 FM (%) 93.70 92.66 98.42 93.75 96.05 99.91 97.75 95.62 BookRestorer Prec (%) 80.30 95.46 97.00 95.27 84.26 99.83 93.76 94.11 Rec (%) 99.36 93.02 99.68 95.22 99.56 99.96 99.62 96.92 FM (%) 88.82 94.22 98.32 95.24 91.27 99.89 96.60 95.50 WiseBook Prec (%) 70.98 83.24 86.10 92.24 72.44 99.18 74.77 83.32 Rec (%) 99.38 99.49 99.58 95.19 98.36 98.61 99.09 98.94 FM (%) 82.81 90.64 92.35 93.69 83.43 98.89 85.23 90.46 ScanFix Prec (%) 59.23 89.57 86.23 91.96 73.38 99.04 80.14 85.00 Rec (%) 95.42 98.78 99.03 96.54 98.55 80.61 97.67 98.04 FM (%) 73.09 93.95 92.19 94.19 84.12 88.88 88.04 91.05

13. IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK 3009 images to test page split

14. IMPACT Tools Developed by NCSR - IMPACT Final Conference 2011, 24-25 October, London, UK 458 images from BNF to test page split