A novel method for the segmentation of double-sided ancient document images suffering from bleed-through effect is presented. It takes advantage of the level set framework to prov...
This paper presents a new use of the Curvelet transform as a multiscale method for indexing linear singularities and curved handwritten shapes in documents images. As it belongs t...
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 ...
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...
In this paper a complete OCR methodology for recognizing historical documents, either printed or handwritten without any knowledge of the font, is presented.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...