Improved document image binarization by using a combination of multiple binarization techniques and adapted edge information

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Gatos, B ^a   Pratikakis, I ^a   Perantonis, S J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PETROLEUM RESERVOIR EVALUATION;

ADAPTIVE APPROACH; BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; EDGE INFORMATION; OBJECTIVE EVALUATION; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; SOURCE IMAGES; STATE OF THE ART;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

EID: 73849092830     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/icpr.2008.4761534     Document Type: Conference Paper

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