General Segmentation

With LEADTOOLS it is easy to handle the segmentation process, whether performing segmentation automatically or manually. A segment is a rectangular area on the bitmap. A segment's type depends on the content of its area. The segmentation process classifies the segments of a bitmap as text, grayscale or picture.

Call the StartSegmentation method to initialize the segmentation process. This method must be called each time a new segmentation process is started, whether segmentation is being performed automatically or manually. To end the segmentation process call the StopSegmentation method, which will free any memory associated with the segmentation process. Each call to StartSegmentation requires a corresponding call to StopSegmentation.