Cleaning and Enhancing Historical Document Images

In this paper we present a recursive algorithm for the cleaning and the enhancing of historical documents. Most of the algorithms, used to clean and enhance documents or transform them to binary images, implement combinations of complicated image processing techniques which increase the computationa...

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Published inAdvanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems pp. 681 - 688
Main Authors Kavallieratou, Ergina, Antonopoulou, Hera
Format Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005
Springer
Edition1ère éd
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Applied sciences
Artificial intelligence
Computer science; control theory; systems
Exact sciences and technology
Pattern recognition. Digital image processing. Computational geometry
Binary image
Image processing
Recursive algorithm
Computational complexity
Image enhancement
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Summary:In this paper we present a recursive algorithm for the cleaning and the enhancing of historical documents. Most of the algorithms, used to clean and enhance documents or transform them to binary images, implement combinations of complicated image processing techniques which increase the computational cost and complexity. Our algorithm simplifies the procedure by taking into account special characteristics of the document images. Moreover, the fact that the algorithm consists of iterated steps, makes it more flexible concerning the needs of the user. At the experimental results, comparison with other methods is provided.
ISBN:9783540290322
354029032X
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/11558484_86