It is common for libraries to provide public access to historical and ancient document image collections. It is common for such document images to require specialized processing i...
We propose an approach to restore severely degraded
document images using a probabilistic context model. Un-
like traditional approaches that use previously learned
prior models...
Jyotirmoy Banerjee, Anoop M. Namboodiri, C. V. Jaw...
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for the binarization and enhancement of degraded documents. The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the user and c...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...
Proper display and accurate recognition of document images are often hampered by degradations caused by poor scanning or transmission conditions. We propose a method to enhance su...
Commercial OCR packages work best with highquality scanned images. They often produce poor results when the image is degraded, either because the original itself was poor quality,...