Algorithms for extracting text from degraded document images

• Main Author: Chen, Yan
• Other Authors: Leedham Charles Graham
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Pattern recognition; DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Image processing and computer vision
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/2545
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The main objective of this research is to automatically separate text from the background in degraded scanned document images and locate individual words in the text. In this thesis, techniques are presented to extract the handwritten text from the noisy or degraded background.