An Adaptive Binarization Technique for Low Quality Historical Documents
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Auteurs : Basilios Gatos [Grèce] ; Ioannis Pratikakis [Grèce] ; J. Perantonis [Grèce]Source :
- Lecture Notes in Computer Science [ 0302-9743 ] ; 2004.
Abstract
Abstract: Historical document collections are a valuable resource for human history. This paper proposes a novel digital image binarization scheme for low quality historical documents allowing further content exploitation in an efficient way. The proposed scheme consists of five distinct steps: a pre-processing procedure using a low-pass Wiener filter, a rough estimation of foreground regions using Niblack’s approach, a background surface calculation by interpolating neighboring background intensities, a thresholding by combining the calculated background surface with the original image and finally a post-processing step in order to improve the quality of text regions and preserve stroke connectivity. The proposed methodology works with great success even in cases of historical manuscripts with poor quality, shadows, nonuniform illumination, low contrast, large signal- dependent noise, smear and strain. After testing the proposed method on numerous low quality historical manuscripts, it has turned out that our methodology performs better compared to current state-of-the-art adaptive thresholding techniques.
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