Transition thresholds for binarization of historical documents

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 2362-2365

  Ramírez Ortegón, Marte A ^a   Rojas, Raúl ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Binarization; Documents; Historical; Method; Transition

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENTS; HISTORICAL; METHOD; TRANSITION;

ALGORITHMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 78149479535     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2010.578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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