Automatic polygon simplification about larex HOT 4 CLOSED

Allow automatically simplifying existing polygons using e. g. the Douglas–Peucker algorithm

Very useful indeed. However, I'd recommend against naive implementation of Douglas-Peucker, because that might change the topology and its result may depend on the order / starting-point of the coordinate ring. Shapely offers a preserve_topology option against this. In OCR-D core's PAGE validator (which ensures both self-validity and consistency between parent and child), this is how we deal with it.

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#295 is fantastic – but only applies to the region level. Often, the most complicated polygons (and most editing effort) is on the line level. Any chance we can get that, too?

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This can be closed – thanks @chaddy314!

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