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Approximating text by its area

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Given possibly non-rectangular shapes, S1, ..., Sn, and some English text, T, we give methods based on approximating T by its area that determine for each Si whether T definitely fits in Si, definitely does not fit in Si, or probably fits in Si. These methods have complexity linear in the size of Si, assuming it is represented as a trapezoid list, but do not depend on the size of T. They require a linear time shape independent pre-processing of the text.

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      DocEng '07: Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Document engineering
      August 2007
      236 pages
      ISBN:9781595937766
      DOI:10.1145/1284420

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