We propose a novel coplanar filter, which exploits the coplanarity of gray-level distribution of neighboring pixels, to pre-filter the document images. Experiments show that the p...
Large quantities of documents in the Internet and digital libraries are simply scanned and archived in image format, many of which are packed in PDF files. The word search tool pr...
Abstract. Scientists and conservators, involved in cultural heritage documentation management, have to furnish not only qualitative but also quantitative description of the assessm...
Watermarks are the most important tool for dating old, not explicitly dated paper documents. Hence, catalogues and databases of watermarks play an eminent role for the work of med...
Emanuel Wenger, Victor N. Karnaukhov, Alois Haidin...
We present methods for eliminating or reducing the distortion in a scanned image. Aspects of the present paper allow for the automatic pruning, de-skewing, and unwarping of an ima...