/Guidelines

SegmOnto Guidelines

This repository contains the Guidelines of the SegmOnto controlled vocabulary for layout analysis and segmentation.

Zones and lines

There are two classes of regions: zones (an area, i.e., polygon, on the page) and lines (an area, plus a baseline).

Zones or lines can be caracterised by:

  • a type (mandatory, controlled values)
  • a subtype (optional, suggested open list of values)
  • a number (optional)

of the form

Region(:subtype)?(#\d)?

e.g.

MainZone

or

  • MainZone#1,
  • MainZone:column
  • MainZone:column#1.

Content of the repository

The repository contains the text of the Guidelines and definitions, with somes examples, as markdown files stored in two folders:

  • Zones
  • Lines