An adaptive local binarization method for document images based on a novel thresholding method and dynamic windows

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1805-1813

  Bataineh, Bilal ^a   Abdullah, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh ^a   Omar, Khairuddin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Document image binarization; Local binarization; OCR; Text; Thresholding methods

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARK DATASETS; BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; FLEXIBLE WINDOW; IMAGE REPRESENTATIONS; NIBLACK; TEXT; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 80052527461     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.08.001     Document Type: Article

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