An adaptive binarization technique for low quality historical documents

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3163, Issue , 2004, Pages 102-113

  Gatos, Basilios ^a   Pratikakis, Ioannis ^a   Perantonis, Stavros J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LOW PASS FILTERS;

ADAPTIVE BINARIZATION; ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; FOREGROUND REGIONS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; NON-UNIFORM ILLUMINATION; ORIGINAL IMAGES; ROUGH ESTIMATION; STATE OF THE ART;

HISTORY;

EID: 33947398271     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-28640-0_10     Document Type: Article

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