Separating text and background in degraded document images - A comparison of global thresholding techniques for multi-stage thresholding

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 244-249

  Leedham, Graham ^a   Varma, Saket ^b   Patankar, Anish ^b   Govindaraju, Venu ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

DEGRADED DOCUMENT IMAGES; DOCUMENT IMAGES; DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; INTEGRAL RATIO; TEXTUAL CONTENT; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHMS;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84893443077     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2002.1030917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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