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Authors: Guillaume Lazzara and Thierry Géraud

* License and Copyright

LRDE is the copyright holder of all the images included in the dataset
except for the original documents subset which are copyrighted from Le
Nouvel Observateur. This work is based on the French magazine Le
Nouvel Observateur, issue 2402, November 18th-24th, 2010.

You are allowed to reuse these documents for research purpose for
evaluation and illustration. If so, please specify the following
copyright: "Copyright (c) 2012. EPITA Research and Development
Laboratory (LRDE) with permission from Le Nouvel Observateur". You are
not allowed to redistribute this dataset.

If you use this dataset, please also cite the most appropriate paper
from this list:

- The SCRIBO Module of the Olena Platform: a Free Software Framework
for Document Image Analysis. In the proceedings of the 11th
International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR),
2011.

This data set is provided "as is" and without any express or implied
warranties, including, without limitation, the implied warranties of
merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.



* Acknowledgements

The LRDE is very grateful to Yan Gilbert who has accepted that we use
and publish as data some pages from this French magazine "Le Nouvel
Observateur" (issue 4202, November 18th-24th, 2010) for our
experiments.



* Contacts

Guillaume Lazzara - z@lrde.epita.fr	- Maintainer
Thierry Géraud 	  - theo@lrde.epita.fr



* Related Links

** All Ressources Related to the Paper
http://publications.lrde.epita.fr/201302-IJDAR

** Dataset Ressources Page
http://olena.lrde.epita.fr/Datasets

** Olena - A Generic Image Processing Platform
http://olena.lrde.epita.fr

** Olena Demos
http://caroussel.lrde.epita.fr/olena/demos

*** Sauvola Multiscale Online Demo
http://caroussel.lrde.epita.fr/olena/demos/sauvola_ms.php

** Publications Related to Olena
http://olena.lrde.epita.fr/Publications

** EPITA Research and Development Laboratory (LRDE)
http://www.lrde.epita.fr
