Comprehensive color segmentation system for noisy digitized documents to enhance text extraction

Asma Ouji; Yann Leydier; Frank LeBourgeois

doi:10.1117/12.912000

23 January 2012 Comprehensive color segmentation system for noisy digitized documents to enhance text extraction

Asma Ouji, Yann Leydier, Frank LeBourgeois

Proceedings Volume 8297, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX; 829705 (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912000
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2012, Burlingame, California, United States

Abstract

This paper presents a novel, general purpose and multi-applications color segmentation system providing optimal chromatic and achromatic layers and filtering the hue and illumination distortions, with minimal information loss. A text extraction method based on the resulting segmentation is proposed to illustrate the usefulness of the method. The system is validated through the evaluation of a well-known commercial OCR line segmentation performances on the processed images.

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Asma Ouji, Yann Leydier, and Frank LeBourgeois "Comprehensive color segmentation system for noisy digitized documents to enhance text extraction", Proc. SPIE 8297, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIX, 829705 (23 January 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.912000

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