Stroke-like pattern noise removal in binary document images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 17-21

  Agrawal, Mudit ^a   Doermann, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

degraded ruled line removal; low density languages; noise; salt n pepper; speckle removal; stroke like pattern noise

Indexed keywords

ARABIC TEXTS; BINARY DOCUMENT IMAGE; DIVIDE-AND-CONQUER TECHNIQUE; NOISE; NOISE REMOVAL; PATTERN NOISE; PRECISION AND RECALL; SALT-N-PEPPER; SCRIPT-INDEPENDENT; SPECKLE REMOVAL; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; TEXT EXTRACTION; TRAINING PURPOSE; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

PIXELS; SALT REMOVAL; TEXT PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355162893     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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