Abstract
In common Internet browsers, a user can search text within a Web page or a frame that the user is currently reading. The search algorithms used to search the source code of the HTML page, and a browser builtin search program also highlights the matched words in the browser display. However, when users browse websites through some character-to-image conversion gateway, all characters are converted to images by using the some character to image conversion technology. In this case, the browser built-in search utility no longer works because it is impossible to search images in current implementations. In this paper, we present a Character-Image Search Engine that provides character search functionality in a page with embedded character images. The Engine works with some Character-to-image Conversion Gateway using an agreed method, thus the character images can be treated just as characters in the search process. The provision of such Character-Image search function makes the Character-to-image conversion Gateway more convenient to use. Consequently, people with no native font supports would still be able to access the Internet with proper display and search tool provided.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 565-570 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics |
| Volume | 4 |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2002 |
| Event | 2002 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Yasmine Hammamet, Tunisia Duration: 6 Oct 2002 → 9 Oct 2002 |
Keywords
- Character-Image
- Character-to-image Gateway
- Multilingual
- Searching
- Web Page
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Hardware and Architecture
- Control and Systems Engineering