Document image binarization using background estimation and stroke edges

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-314

  Lu, Shijian ^a   Su, Bolan ^b   Tan, Chew Lim ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Document background estimation; Document image analysis; Document image binarization; Polynomial smoothing

Indexed keywords

BACKGROUND ESTIMATION; DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGES; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT IMAGE BINARIZATION; DOCUMENT IMAGES; IMAGE GRADIENTS; INTENSITY LEVELS; INTERNATIONAL RESEARCHES; L1 NORM; TEXT DOCUMENT;

DEGRADATION; ESTIMATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; POLYNOMIALS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 78649905898     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-010-0130-8     Document Type: Article

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