Novel Adaptive Binarization Method for Degraded Document Images

• Main Authors: Sheikh Abdullah, Siti Norul Huda, M. Ismail, Saad, Hasan, Mohammad Kamrul, Shivakumara, Palaiahnakote
• Format: Article
• Published: Tech Science Press 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/25984/; https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2021.014610

Achieving a good recognition rate for degraded document images is difficult as degraded document images suffer from low contrast, bleed-through, and nonuniform illumination effects. Unlike the existing baseline thresholding techniques that use fixed thresholds and windows, the proposed method introd...