Adaptive document binarization

J Sauvola, T Seppanen, S Haapakoski… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new method is presented for adaptive document image binarization, where the page is
considered as a collection of subcomponents such as text, background and picture. The …

Improved document image binarization by using a combination of multiple binarization techniques and adapted edge information

B Gatos, I Pratikakis… - 2008 19th International …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for document image binarization. The
proposed method is mainly based on the combination of several state-of-the-art binarization …

Combination of document image binarization techniques

B Su, S Lu, CL Tan - 2011 International Conference on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Document image binarization has been studied for decades, and many practical binarization
techniques have been proposed for different kinds of document images. However, many …

Adaptive document image binarization

J Sauvola, M Pietikäinen - Pattern recognition, 2000 - Elsevier
A new method is presented for adaptive document image binarization, where the page is
considered as a collection of subcomponents such as text, background and picture. The …

A recursive Otsu thresholding method for scanned document binarization

O Nina, B Morse, W Barrett - 2011 IEEE Workshop on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of digital images of scanned handwritten historical documents has increased in
recent years, especially with the online availability of large document collections. However …

An objective evaluation methodology for document image binarization techniques

K Ntirogiannis, B Gatos… - 2008 The Eighth IAPR …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evaluation of document image binarization techniques is a tedious task that is mainly
performedby a human expert or by involving an OCR engine. This paper presents an …

Binarization of historical document images using the local maximum and minimum

B Su, S Lu, CL Tan - Proceedings of the 9th IAPR International …, 2010 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents a new document image binarization technique that segments the text
from badly degraded historical document images. The proposed technique makes use of the …

ICDAR 2009 document image binarization contest (DIBCO 2009)

B Gatos, K Ntirogiannis… - 2009 10th International …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
DIBCO 2009 is the first International Document Image Binarization Contest organized in the
context of ICDAR 2009 conference. The general objective of the contest is to identify current …

Document image binarization using background estimation and stroke edges

S Lu, B Su, CL Tan - International Journal on Document Analysis and …, 2010 - Springer
Document images often suffer from different types of degradation that renders the document
image binarization a challenging task. This paper presents a document image binarization …

[PDF][PDF] Font and background color independent text binarization

T Kasar, J Kumar… - … international workshop on …, 2007 - researchgate.net
We propose a novel method for binarization of color documents whereby the foreground text
is output as black and the background as white regardless of the polarity of foreground …