A mask-based enhancement method for historical documents

Elisa H. Barney Smith; Jérôme Darbon; Laurence Likforman-Sulem

doi:10.1117/12.876668

24 January 2011 A mask-based enhancement method for historical documents

Elisa H. Barney Smith, Jérôme Darbon, Laurence Likforman-Sulem

Proceedings Volume 7874, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII; 787414 (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876668
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2011, San Francisco Airport, California, United States

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement. The method is based on the combination of two state-of-the-art filters through the construction of a mask. The mask is applied to a TV (Total Variation) - regularized image where background noise has been reduced. The masked image is then filtered by NLmeans (Non LocalMeans) which reduces the noise in the text areas located by the mask. The document images to be enhanced are real historical documents from several periods which include several defects in their background. These defects result from scanning, paper aging and bleed-through. We observe the improvement of this enhancement method through OCR accuracy.

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Elisa H. Barney Smith, Jérôme Darbon, and Laurence Likforman-Sulem "A mask-based enhancement method for historical documents", Proc. SPIE 7874, Document Recognition and Retrieval XVIII, 787414 (24 January 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.876668

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