We compare in this study two image restoration approaches for the pre-processing of printed documents: namely the Non-local Means filter and a total variation minimization approac...
Decoding noisy document images is commonly needed in applications such as enterprise content management. Available OCR solutions are still not satisfactory especially on noisy ima...
Degraded documents are frequently obtained in various situations. Examples of degraded document collections include historical document depositories, document obtained in legal an...
We wish to recover an original image u from several blurry-noisy versions fk, called frames. We assume a more severe degradation model, in which the image u has been blurred by a ...
This paper presents a new adaptive approach for the binarization and enhancement of degraded documents. The proposed method does not require any parameter tuning by the user and c...
Basilios Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros J. Per...