The choice of the best binarization algorithm is very critical for any document image processing system, since it is one of the first tasks and any mistake it performs will be car...
The effects of different image pre-processing methods for document image binarization are explored. They are compared on five different binarization methods on images with bleed t...
Elisa H. Barney Smith, Laurence Likforman-Sulem, J...
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 cu...
The aim of this work is to propose a new approach to the recognition of historical texts by providing an adaptive mechanism that automatically tunes itself to a specific book. Th...
Vladimir Kluzner, Asaf Tzadok, Yuval Shimony, Euge...
In this paper, a new method for document images or photos binarization is presented. The method is simple, fast and robust and appropriate for normal as well as for special cases ...