An adaptive logical method for binarization of degraded document images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 787-807

  Yang, Yibing ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive logical thresholding; Document images; Image binarization; Image segmentation; Image thresholding

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ADAPTIVE LOGICAL THRESHOLDING; IMAGE BINARIZATION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0033908199     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00094-1     Document Type: Article

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