TY - GEN
T1 - A thresholding algorithm for text/background segmentation in degraded handwritten Jawi documents
AU - Zulcaffle, Tengku Mohd Afendi
AU - Othman, Al Khalid
AU - Abidin, Wan Azlan Wan Zainal
AU - Mohammaddan, Shahrol
AU - Marzuki, Ade Syaheda Wani
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - The old documents in Jawi script are being used widely for references. The hard copies of those scripts will deteriorate as time passes. Most of the previous works on Jawi documents focused on the character recognition and the accuracy of the algorithm was very much affected by noise. An effective preprocessing method is required to binarize degraded Jawi document. In this paper, a new technique to threshold degraded Jawi document is proposed. The results of the new algorithm were also evaluated and compared with several algorithms. The quality of the thresholding methods was assessed using visual inspection and mathematical evaluation. The results show that the new technique has outclassed other binarization algorithms.
AB - The old documents in Jawi script are being used widely for references. The hard copies of those scripts will deteriorate as time passes. Most of the previous works on Jawi documents focused on the character recognition and the accuracy of the algorithm was very much affected by noise. An effective preprocessing method is required to binarize degraded Jawi document. In this paper, a new technique to threshold degraded Jawi document is proposed. The results of the new algorithm were also evaluated and compared with several algorithms. The quality of the thresholding methods was assessed using visual inspection and mathematical evaluation. The results show that the new technique has outclassed other binarization algorithms.
KW - Degraded jawi documents
KW - Document binarization
KW - Image processing
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U2 - 10.1109/ACT.2010.43
DO - 10.1109/ACT.2010.43
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751636370
SN - 9780769542690
T3 - Proceedings - 2010 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Telecommunication Technologies, ACT 2010
SP - 80
EP - 84
BT - Proceedings - 2010 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Telecommunication Technologies, ACT 2010
T2 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Telecommunication Technologies, ACT 2010
Y2 - 2 December 2010 through 3 December 2010
ER -