A modified adaptive logical level binarization technique for historical document images

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1171-1175

  Ntirogiannis, K ^a   Gatos, B ^a   Pratikakis, I ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; CONTOUR POINTS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; LOCAL PARAMETERS; LOCAL-ADAPTIVE; LOGICAL LEVELS; PRINTED DOCUMENTS;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 71249122301     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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