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elements being organized. During preprocessing, we
break the text elements into homogenous segments of
text, in which all the characters have the same font and
font size.
2.1.3 Finding the smallest bounding boxes that enclose
the vector graphics elements
The element's bounding box, the smallest rectangle that
encloses each page element, is used to represent the size
and position of a page element. The bounding box of a
graphic element is calculated by finding the smallest
rectangle that encloses all the sub-paths in a graphics
element. There are three types of drawings or paths:
lines, rectangles and Beize Curves. The coordinates for
the bounding boxes of lines and rectangles can be easily
obtained from the control points, the starting and ending
points of a path. In the case of the Seize curve:
Where O