This paper presents a new approach for the binarization of seriously degraded manuscript. We introduce a new technique based on a Markov Random Field (MRF) model of the document. ...
The main problems of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems are solved if printed latin text is considered. Since OCR systems are based upon binary images, their results are ...
Global and local adaptive thresholding techniques have been shown effective on particular types of documents. None produces consistently good results on all types of documents. In...
It is common for libraries to provide public access to historical and ancient document image collections. It is common for such document images to require specialized processing i...
—The goal of this paper is to correct bleed-through in degraded documents using a variational approach. The variational model is adapted using an estimated background according t...