libtesseract-dev 3.02.01-6 / usr / include / tesseract / colpartitiongrid.h

///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// File:        colpartitionrid.h
// Description: Class collecting code that acts on a BBGrid of ColPartitions.
// Author:      Ray Smith
// Created:     Mon Oct 05 08:42:01 PDT 2009
//
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#ifndef TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITIONGRID_H__
#define TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITIONGRID_H__

#include "bbgrid.h"
#include "colpartition.h"
#include "colpartitionset.h"

namespace tesseract {

class TabFind;

// ColPartitionGrid is a BBGrid of ColPartition.
// It collects functions that work on the grid.
class ColPartitionGrid : public BBGrid<ColPartition,
                                       ColPartition_CLIST,
                                       ColPartition_C_IT> {
 public:
  ColPartitionGrid();
  ColPartitionGrid(int gridsize, const ICOORD& bleft, const ICOORD& tright);

  virtual ~ColPartitionGrid();

  // Handles a click event in a display window.
  void HandleClick(int x, int y);

  // Merges ColPartitions in the grid that look like they belong in the same
  // textline.
  // For all partitions in the grid, calls the box_cb permanent callback
  // to compute the search box, seaches the box, and if a candidate is found,
  // calls the confirm_cb to check any more rules. If the confirm_cb returns
  // true, then the partitions are merged.
  // Both callbacks are deleted before returning.
  void Merges(TessResultCallback2<bool, ColPartition*, TBOX*>* box_cb,
              TessResultCallback2<bool, const ColPartition*,
                                  const ColPartition*>* confirm_cb);

  // For the given partition, calls the box_cb permanent callback
  // to compute the search box, searches the box, and if a candidate is found,
  // calls the confirm_cb to check any more rules. If the confirm_cb returns
  // true, then the partitions are merged.
  // Returns true if the partition is consumed by one or more merges.
  bool MergePart(TessResultCallback2<bool, ColPartition*, TBOX*>* box_cb,
                 TessResultCallback2<bool, const ColPartition*,
                                     const ColPartition*>* confirm_cb,
                 ColPartition* part);

  // Finds all the ColPartitions in the grid that overlap with the given
  // box and returns them SortByBoxLeft(ed) and uniqued in the given list.
  // Any partition equal to not_this (may be NULL) is excluded.
  void FindOverlappingPartitions(const TBOX& box, const ColPartition* not_this,
                                 ColPartition_CLIST* parts);

  // Finds and returns the best candidate ColPartition to merge with part,
  // selected from the candidates list, based on the minimum increase in
  // pairwise overlap among all the partitions overlapped by the combined box.
  // If overlap_increase is not NULL then it returns the increase in overlap
  // that would result from the merge.
  // See colpartitiongrid.cpp for a diagram.
  ColPartition* BestMergeCandidate(
      const ColPartition* part, ColPartition_CLIST* candidates, bool debug,
      TessResultCallback2<bool, const ColPartition*,
                          const ColPartition*>* confirm_cb,
      int* overlap_increase);

  // Split partitions where it reduces overlap between their bounding boxes.
  // ColPartitions are after all supposed to be a partitioning of the blobs
  // AND of the space on the page!
  // Blobs that cause overlaps get removed, put in individual partitions
  // and added to the big_parts list. They are most likely characters on
  // 2 textlines that touch, or something big like a dropcap.
  void SplitOverlappingPartitions(ColPartition_LIST* big_parts);

  // Filters partitions of source_type by looking at local neighbours.
  // Where a majority of neighbours have a text type, the partitions are
  // changed to text, where the neighbours have image type, they are changed
  // to image, and partitions that have no definite neighbourhood type are
  // left unchanged.
  // im_box and rerotation are used to map blob coordinates onto the
  // nontext_map, which is used to prevent the spread of text neighbourhoods
  // into images.
  // Returns true if anything was changed.
  bool GridSmoothNeighbours(BlobTextFlowType source_type, Pix* nontext_map,
                            const TBOX& im_box, const FCOORD& rerotation);

  // Compute the mean RGB of the light and dark pixels in each ColPartition
  // and also the rms error in the linearity of color.
  void ComputePartitionColors(Pix* scaled_color, int scaled_factor,
                              const FCOORD& rerotation);

  // Reflects the grid and its colpartitions in the y-axis, assuming that
  // all blob boxes have already been done.
  void ReflectInYAxis();

  // Rotates the grid and its colpartitions by the given angle, assuming that
  // all blob boxes have already been done.
  void Deskew(const FCOORD& deskew);

  // Sets the left and right tabs of the partitions in the grid.
  void SetTabStops(TabFind* tabgrid);

  // Makes the ColPartSets and puts them in the PartSetVector ready
  // for finding column bounds. Returns false if no partitions were found.
  // Each ColPartition in the grid is placed in a single ColPartSet based
  // on the bottom-left of its bounding box.
  bool MakeColPartSets(PartSetVector* part_sets);

  // Makes a single ColPartitionSet consisting of a single ColPartition that
  // represents the total horizontal extent of the significant content on the
  // page. Used for the single column setting in place of automatic detection.
  // Returns NULL if the page is empty of significant content.
  ColPartitionSet* MakeSingleColumnSet(WidthCallback* cb);

  // Mark the BLOBNBOXes in each partition as being owned by that partition.
  void ClaimBoxes();

  // Retypes all the blobs referenced by the partitions in the grid.
  // Image blobs are sliced on the grid boundaries to give the tab finder
  // a better handle on the edges of the images, and the actual blobs are
  // returned in the im_blobs list, as they are not owned by the block.
  void ReTypeBlobs(BLOBNBOX_LIST* im_blobs);

  // The boxes within the partitions have changed (by deskew) so recompute
  // the bounds of all the partitions and reinsert them into the grid.
  void RecomputeBounds(int gridsize, const ICOORD& bleft,
                       const ICOORD& tright, const ICOORD& vertical);

  // Improves the margins of the ColPartitions in the grid by calling
  // FindPartitionMargins on each.
  void GridFindMargins(ColPartitionSet** best_columns);

  // Improves the margins of the ColPartitions in the list by calling
  // FindPartitionMargins on each.
  void ListFindMargins(ColPartitionSet** best_columns,
                       ColPartition_LIST* parts);

  // Deletes all the partitions in the grid after disowning all the blobs.
  void DeleteParts();

  // Deletes all the partitions in the grid that are of type BRT_UNKNOWN and
  // all the blobs in them.
  void DeleteUnknownParts(TO_BLOCK* block);

  // Finds and marks text partitions that represent figure captions.
  void FindFigureCaptions();

  //////// Functions that manipulate ColPartitions in the grid     ///////
  //////// to find chains of partner partitions of the same type.  ///////
  // For every ColPartition in the grid, finds its upper and lower neighbours.
  void FindPartitionPartners();
  // Finds the best partner in the given direction for the given partition.
  // Stores the result with AddPartner.
  void FindPartitionPartners(bool upper, ColPartition* part);
  // Finds the best partner in the given direction for the given partition.
  // Stores the result with AddPartner.
  void FindVPartitionPartners(bool to_the_left, ColPartition* part);
  // For every ColPartition with multiple partners in the grid, reduces the
  // number of partners to 0 or 1. If get_desperate is true, goes to more
  // desperate merge methods to merge flowing text before breaking partnerships.
  void RefinePartitionPartners(bool get_desperate);

 private:
  // Finds and returns a list of candidate ColPartitions to merge with part.
  // The candidates must overlap search_box, and when merged must not
  // overlap any other partitions that are not overlapped by each individually.
  void FindMergeCandidates(const ColPartition* part, const TBOX& search_box,
                           bool debug, ColPartition_CLIST* candidates);

  // Smoothes the region type/flow type of the given part by looking at local
  // neigbours and the given image mask. Searches a padded rectangle with the
  // padding truncated on one size of the part's box in turn for each side,
  // using the result (if any) that has the least distance to all neighbours
  // that contribute to the decision. This biases in favor of rectangular
  // regions without completely enforcing them.
  // If a good decision cannot be reached, the part is left unchanged.
  // im_box and rerotation are used to map blob coordinates onto the
  // nontext_map, which is used to prevent the spread of text neighbourhoods
  // into images.
  // Returns true if the partition was changed.
  bool SmoothRegionType(Pix* nontext_map,
                        const TBOX& im_box,
                        const FCOORD& rerotation,
                        bool debug,
                        ColPartition* part);
  // Executes the search for SmoothRegionType in a single direction.
  // Creates a bounding box that is padded in all directions except direction,
  // and searches it for other partitions. Finds the nearest collection of
  // partitions that makes a decisive result (if any) and returns the type
  // and the distance of the collection. If there are any pixels in the
  // nontext_map, then the decision is biased towards image.
  BlobRegionType SmoothInOneDirection(BlobNeighbourDir direction,
                                      Pix* nontext_map,
                                      const TBOX& im_box,
                                      const FCOORD& rerotation,
                                      bool debug,
                                      const ColPartition& part,
                                      int* best_distance);
  // Counts the partitions in the given search_box by appending the gap
  // distance (scaled by dist_scaling) of the part from the base_part to the
  // vector of the appropriate type for the partition. Prior to return, the
  // vectors in the dists array are sorted in increasing order.
  // dists must be an array of GenericVectors of size NPT_COUNT.
  void AccumulatePartDistances(const ColPartition& base_part,
                               const ICOORD& dist_scaling,
                               const TBOX& search_box,
                               Pix* nontext_map,
                               const TBOX& im_box,
                               const FCOORD& rerotation,
                               bool debug,
                               GenericVector<int>* dists);

  // Improves the margins of the ColPartition by searching for
  // neighbours that vertically overlap significantly.
  void FindPartitionMargins(ColPartitionSet* columns, ColPartition* part);

  // Starting at x, and going in the specified direction, upto x_limit, finds
  // the margin for the given y range by searching sideways,
  // and ignoring not_this.
  int FindMargin(int x, bool right_to_left, int x_limit,
                 int y_bottom, int y_top, const ColPartition* not_this);
};

}  // namespace tesseract.

#endif  // TESSERACT_TEXTORD_COLPARTITIONGRID_H__