—As the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) has become an international standard for image compression, we present techniques that allow the processing of an image in the “...
In this paper, we present a new technique for estimating an arbitrary skew angle using a simple and efficient text row accumulation based on the statistics of the 1st and 2nd orde...
Separating handwritten and typewritten text within unconstrained paper documents can provide more accurate and efficient OCR results. This paper presents a technique developed that...
Jia Tse, Dean Curtis, John Bunch, Christopher Jone...
In this paper, we present a novel approach for detecting and removing pre-printed rule-lines from binary handwritten Arabic document images. The proposed technique is based on a d...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...