For the transition from traditional to digital libraries, the large number of handwritten manuscripts that exist pose a great challenge. Easy access to such collections requires a...
The National Archives of Singapore keeps a large volume of historical handwritten documents. One common problem with the archives is that over the years, ink sipped through the pa...
This paper proposes a novel hybrid method to robustly and accurately localize texts in natural scene images. A text region detector is designed to generate a text confidence map,...
—We propose a new method for an effective removal of the printing artifacts occurring in historical newspapers which are caused by problems in the hot metal typesetting, a widely...
Iuliu Vasile Konya, Stefan Eickeler, Christoph Sei...
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...