Protocol
All registered participants is required to submit one of the following executables in the form of Win32 console application:
WordSpot -i arg1 arg3 arg4 or
WordSpot -t arg2 arg3 arg4
arg1: The filename of the word image used as query.
arg2: The word (ASCII representation) used as query.
arg3: Input image filename. It should be a binary TIF image
having CCITT Fax4 compression (or any binary image format if TIF/CCITT
Fax4 is not possible for the participants).
arg4: The filename of the output file. The output file should be
an ASCII text file containing the corresponding bounding box coordinates
for each spotted word instance (x1,x2,y1,y2). A line break should
appear between successive results.
Example2:
Wordspot -i query.tif page.tif results.txt
Wordspot -t human page.tif results.txt
results.txt:
50,300,70,150
400,520,670,720