A Scheme Towards Automatic Word Indexation System for Balinese Palm Leaf Manuscripts

Made Windu Antara Kesiman; Gede Aditra Pradnyana

doi:10.5614/itbj.ict.res.appl.2021.15.2.1

Authors

Made Windu Antara Kesiman Virtual, Vision, Image and Pattern Research Group, Department of Informatics Engineering, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Jalan Udayana No. 11, Banyuasri, Kec. Buleleng, Kabupaten Buleleng, Bali 81116, Indonesia
Gede Aditra Pradnyana Virtual, Vision, Image and Pattern Research Group, Department of Informatics Engineering, Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha, Jalan Udayana No. 11, Banyuasri, Kec. Buleleng, Kabupaten Buleleng, Bali 81116, Indonesia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5614/itbj.ict.res.appl.2021.15.2.1

Keywords:

Balinese palm leaf manuscript, patch extraction, text detection, transliteration, word indexing

Abstract

This paper proposes an initial scheme towards the development of an automatic word indexation system for Balinese lontar (palm leaf manuscript) collections. The word indexation system scheme consists of a sub module for patch image extraction of text areas in lontars and a sub module for word image transliteration. This is the first word indexation system for lontar collections to be proposed. To detect parts of a lontar image that contain text, a Gabor filter is used to provide initial information about the presence of text texture in the image. An adaptive sliding patch algorithm for the extraction of patch images in lontars is also proposed. The word image transliteration sub module was built using the long short-term memory (LSTM) model. The results showed that the image patch extraction of text areas process succeeded in optimally detecting text areas in lontars and extracting the patch image in a suitable position. The proposed scheme successfully extracted between 20% to 40% of the keywords in lontars and thus can at least provide an initial description for prospective lontar readers of the content contained in a lontar collection or to find in which lontar collection certain keywords can be found.

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