tesseract-ocr/textord/equationdetectbase.h

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// File:        equationdetectbase.h
// Description: The base class equation detection class.
// Author:      Zongyi (Joe) Liu (joeliu@google.com)
// Created:     Fri Aug 31 11:13:01 PST 2011
//
// (C) Copyright 2011, Google Inc.
// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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//

#ifndef TESSERACT_TEXTORD_EQUATIONDETECTBASE_H__
#define TESSERACT_TEXTORD_EQUATIONDETECTBASE_H__

class BLOBNBOX_LIST;
class TO_BLOCK;
struct Pix;

namespace tesseract {

class ColPartitionGrid;
class ColPartitionSet;

class EquationDetectBase {
 public:
  EquationDetectBase();
  virtual ~EquationDetectBase();

  // Iterate over the blobs inside to_block, and set the blobs that we want to
  // process to BSTT_NONE. (By default, they should be BSTT_SKIP). The function
  // returns 0 upon success.
  virtual int LabelSpecialText(TO_BLOCK* to_block) = 0;

  // Interface to find possible equation partition grid from part_grid. This
  // should be called after IdentifySpecialText function.
  virtual int FindEquationParts(ColPartitionGrid* part_grid,
                                ColPartitionSet** best_columns) = 0;

  // Debug function: Render a bounding box on pix based on the value of its
  // special_text_type, specifically:
  // BSTT_MATH: red box
  // BSTT_DIGIT: cyan box
  // BSTT_ITALIC: green box
  // BSTT_UNCLEAR: blue box
  // All others: yellow box
  static void RenderSpecialText(Pix* pix, BLOBNBOX* blob);
};

};  // namespace tesseract

#endif  // TESSERACT_TEXTORD_EQUATIONDETECTBASE_H__