Text segmentation in degraded historical document images

Text segmentation from degraded Historical Indus script images helps Optical Character Recognizer (OCR) to achieve good recognition rates for Hindus scripts; however, it is challenging due to complex background in such images. In this paper, we present a new method for segmenting text and non-text i...

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Main Authors: A.S. Kavitha, P. Shivakumara, G.H. Kumar, Tong Lu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016-07-01
Series:Egyptian Informatics Journal
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S111086651500064X