Document image binarization based on texture analysis

Ying Liu; Sargur N. Srihari

doi:10.1117/12.171112

23 March 1994 Document image binarization based on texture analysis

Ying Liu, Sargur N. Srihari

Proceedings Volume 2181, Document Recognition; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171112
Event: IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1994, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

A new thresholding algorithm is presented to address strong noise, complex patterns, poor contrast, and variable modalities in gray-scale histograms. It is based on document image texture analysis. The algorithm consists of three steps. First candidate thresholds are produced from the gray scale histogram analysis. Then, texture features associated with each candidate threshold are computed from the corresponding run-length histogram. Finally, the optimal threshold is selected according to the goodness evaluation so that the most desirable document texture features are produced. Only one pass through an image is required for optimal threshold selection. The test set consisted of 9000 machine printed address blocks from an unconstrained U.S. mail stream. Over 99.6% of the images were visually well-binarized. In an objective test, a system run with 594 mail address blocks, which contains many difficult images, shows that an 8.1% higher character recognition rate was achieved, compared to that by a previous algorithm due to Otsu.

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Ying Liu and Sargur N. Srihari "Document image binarization based on texture analysis", Proc. SPIE 2181, Document Recognition, (23 March 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171112

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