This paper presents a new document image binarization technique that segments the text from badly degraded historical document images. The proposed technique makes use of the imag...
Gray-scale document images are binarized in order to perform optical character recognition (OCR). To perform this binarization, a variety of techniques have been proposed for perf...
This paper presents a document image thresholding technique that binarizes badly illuminated document images by the photometric correction. Based on the observation that illuminat...
—A novel binarization method for courtesy amount recognition of color Chinese checks is proposed in this paper. It includes two steps: background removal and seal removal. In the...
Page segmentation into text and non-text components is an essential preprocessing step before OCR operation. If this is not done properly, an OCR classification engine produces g...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...