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Advancing well on complex layout analysis. Here is what we showed for the trainable baseline detection for complex Arabic documents at the last HIP@ICDAR in September 2019 (see publications). It is very successful on documents of varying line orientation.  With a succeeding multidimensional seamcarve we then isolate the polygon  around a baseline as is demonstrated in the second picture, a Hebrew manuscript from Geneva in the Tikkoun Sofrim project.    Implementation in kraken / eScriptorium should be out any day now.  