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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

A Method for Binarization of Document Images from a Live Camera Stream

Author : Mattias Wahde

Published in: Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This paper describes a method for binarization of document images from a live camera stream. The method is based on histogram matching over partial images (referred to as tiles). A method developed previously has been applied successfully to images with artificially added noise. Here, an improved method is presented, in which the user has more direct control over the specification of the binarizer. The resulting system is then taken a step further, by considering the more difficult case of binarization of live camera images. It is demonstrated that the improved method works well for this case, even when the image stream is obtained using a (slightly modified) low-cost web camera with low resolution. For typical images obtained this way, a standard OCR reader is capable of reading the binarized images, detecting around 87.5 % of all words without any error, and with mostly minor, correctable errors for the remaining words.

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Metadata
Title
A Method for Binarization of Document Images from a Live Camera Stream
Author
Mattias Wahde
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Agents and Artificial Intelligence

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25209-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25210-0

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25210-0_9

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