Text binarization in color documents

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 262-274

  Badekas, Efthimios ^a   Nikolaou, Nikos ^a   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binarization; Color quantization; Document processing; Segmentation; Text localization

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; DATA ACQUISITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION;

BINARIZATION; COLOR QUANTIZATION; CONNECTED COMPONENTS (CC); TEXT LOCALIZATION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 34248582575     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: 10981098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ima.20092     Document Type: Article

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