Background noise detection and cleaning in document images

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 758-762

  Ali, Majdi Ben Hadj ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

background noise detection; noise cleaning; OCR systems

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BACKGROUND COMPONENTS; BACKGROUND NOISE; CLEANING METHODS; COMPLEX BACKGROUND; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; OCR SYSTEMS; SIMPLE APPROACH; STRUCTURING ELEMENT;

CLEANING;

EID: 0002039542     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.547270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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