imgtxtenh - Tool for enhancing noisy scanned text images
The function of 'imgtxtenh' is to clean/enhance noisy scanned text images, which could be printed or handwritten text. It takes as input an image and generates as output another image of the same size. It supports all the input/output image formats that the linked ImageMagick library supports.
Currently only two techniques are implemented, which are the method of Sauvola [1], and a simple modification [2] of the method of Sauvola that generates a grayscale image instead of binary foreground-background decisions. For explanation of the usage, execute:
./imgtxtenh -h
If this software is used in research, any publication resulting from it is required to cite the reference [2] below.
The procedure for compiling is:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
[1] Sauvola, J. and Pietikainen, M. Adaptive document image binarization. Pattern Recognition, 33(2):225–236, 2000.
[2] M. Villegas, V. Romero, and J. A. Sánchez. On the Modification of Binarization Algorithms to Retain Grayscale Information for Handwritten Text Recognition. In IbPria 2015.
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Copyright (c) 2012-present, Mauricio Villegas [email protected]
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