Automatic estimation of the legibility of binarised historic documents for unsupervised parameter tuning

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 104-108

  Stommel, M ^a   Frieder, G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b George Washington University   (United States)

Author keywords

document enhancement; historic documents; legibility estimation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ESTIMATION; BINARISATION; FILTER PARAMETER; HISTORIC DOCUMENTS; MANUAL PROCESS; PARAMETER-TUNING; ROBUST FILTERS; TEXT DOCUMENT;

HISTORY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 82355161296     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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