This review provides a comprehensive view of the field of historical document image
binarization with a focus on the contributions made in the last decade. After the introduction …

Feature engineering takes a very important role in writer identification which has been
widely studied in the literature. Previous works have shown that the joint feature distribution …

In this paper, we address the document image binarization problem with a three-stage
procedure. First, possible stains and general document background information are …

Historical manuscript dating has always been an important challenge for historians but since
countless manuscripts have become digitally available recently, the pattern recognition …

Thresholding is a popular method of image segmentation. Many thresholding methods
utilize only the gray level information of pixels in the image, which may lead to poor …

Understanding handwritten documents is a vital and challenging problem that attracts many
researchers in the fields of forensic and authentication science. This paper presents an …

This paper presents a novel preprocessing method of color-to-gray document image
conversion. In contrast to the conventional methods designed for natural images that aim to …

Document image binarization is a crucial step towards optical character recognition and
analysis. One common way to achieve image binarization is thresholding. Thresholding …

En este trabajo, se implementaron técnicas para el reconocimiento digital de caracteres,
utilizando la técnica OCR (Reconocimiento Óptico de Caracteres), que implementa métodos …

An enormous amount of digital images are being generated and stored every day.
Understanding text in these images is an important challenge with large impacts for …