This paper presents a new document image binarization technique that segments the text from badly degraded historical document images.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...
In this paper, a new document image binarization technique is presented, as an improved version of the state-of-the-art adaptive logical level technique (ALLT). The original ALLT ...
Abstract--We attempt to evaluate the efficacy of six unsupervised evaluation method to tune Sauvola's threshold in optical character recognition (OCR) applications. We propose...
This paper presents an algorithm using adaptive local connectivity map for retrieving text lines from the complex handwritten documents such as handwritten historical manuscripts....
—A vast number of historical and badly degraded document images can be found in libraries, public, and national archives. Due to the complex nature of different artifacts, such p...