Comparison of some thresholding algorithms for text/background segmentation in difficult document images

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 859-864

  Leedham, Graham ^a   Yan, Chen ^a   Takru, Kalyan ^a   Tan, Joie Hadi Nata ^a   Mian, Li ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATIC SELECTION; BACKGROUND NOISE; DOCUMENT IMAGES; PRECISION AND RECALL; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING ALGORITHMS; THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84945896260     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227784     Document Type: Conference Paper

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