Christophe Rigaud author Dimosthenis Karatzas author Joost Van de Weijer author Jean-Christophe Burie author Jean-Marc Ogier author 2013 Comic books constitute an important cultural heritage asset in many countries. Digitization combined with subsequent document understanding enable direct content-based search as opposed to metadata only search (e.g. album title or author name). Few studies have been done in this direction. In this work we detail a novel approach for the automatic text localization in scanned comics book pages, an essential step towards a fully automatic comics book understanding. We focus on speech text as it is semantically important and represents the majority of the text present in comics. The approach is compared with existing methods of text localization found in the literature and results are presented. Text localization comics text/graphic separation complex background unstructured document DAG; CIC; 600.056 exported from refbase (http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/show.php?record=2261), last updated on Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:10:30 +0100 text http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/RKW2013b.pdf Admin @ si @ RKW2013b VISAPP 2013 conference publication 814 819