Extracting halftones from printed documents using texture analysis

Optical Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1044-1052

  Dunn, Dennis F ^a,b   Weldon, Thomas P ^a,c   Higgins, William E ^a,b  

^a International Society for Optics and Photonics   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Charlotte   (United States)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Gabor filters; Halftones; Spectral analysis; Texture analysis; Texture segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000997999     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601289     Document Type: Article

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