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Enhancing the Quality of Color Documents with Back-to-Front Interference

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Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 2009)

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Back-to-front, show-through, or bleeding are the names given to the overlapping interference whenever a document is written (or printed) on both sides of a translucent paper. Such interference makes more difficult, if not impossible, document transcription and binarization. This paper presents a new technique to filter out such interference in color documents, enhancing their readability.

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  1. Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil

    João Marcelo Silva, Rafael Dueire Lins & Gabriel Pereira e Silva

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    Mohamed Kamel

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

    Aurélio Campilho

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Silva, J.M., Lins, R.D., Silva, G.P.e. (2009). Enhancing the Quality of Color Documents with Back-to-Front Interference. In: Kamel, M., Campilho, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Recognition. ICIAR 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02611-9_86

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