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A robust multi stage technique for image binarization of degraded historical documents

Boudraa et al., 2017

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17143392434945144658
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Boudraa O
Hidouci W
Michelucci D
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2017 5th International Conference on Electrical Engineering-Boumerdes (ICEE-B)

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Document image binarization is a central problem in many document analysis systems. Indeed, it represents one of the basic challenges, especially in case of historical documents analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel robust multi stage framework that combines …
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