This paper describes the ICFHR 2010 Contest for quantitative evaluation of binarization algorithms. These algorithm are applied to synthetic images of modern pdf documents with noi...
Roberto Paredes, Ergina Kavallieratou, Rafael Duei...
Most of the document binarization techniques have many parameters that can initially be specified. Usually, subjective document binarization evaluation, employs human observes for ...
—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...
: Document binarization is an active research area for many years. The choice of the most appropriate binarization algorithm for each case proved to be a very difficult procedure i...
In this paper a complete OCR methodology for recognizing historical documents, either printed or handwritten without any knowledge of the font, is presented. This methodology cons...