In this paper, we present a novel graph-based method for extracting handwritten text lines in monochromatic Arabic document images. Our approach consists of two steps Coarse text ...
Jayant Kumar, Wael Abd-Almageed, Le Kang, David S....
Binary segmentation, a problem of extracting foreground objects from the background, often arises in medical imaging and document processing. Popular existing solutions include Ex...
Conventional electrophotographic printers tend to produce Moir´e artifacts when used for printing images scanned from printed material such as books and magazines. We propose a n...
Hasib Siddiqui, Mireille Boutin, Charles A. Bouman
The proliferation of digital libraries and the large amount of existing documents raise important issues in efficient handling of documents. Printed texts in documents need to be...
A new handwritten text database, GERMANA, is presented to facilitate empirical comparison of different approaches to text line extraction and off-line handwriting recognition. G...