scholarly journals LANGUAGE INDEPENDENT ROBUST SKEW DETECTION AND CORRECTION TECHNIQUE FOR DOCUMENT IMAGES

2012 ◽  
pp. 111-115
Author(s):  
Neha. N
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Document Image ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Skew Detection ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Correction Technique ◽  
All Optical

Document image processing is an increasingly important technology essential in all optical character recognition (OCR) systems and for automation of various office documents. A document originally has zero-skew (tilt), but when a page is scanned or photo copied, skew may be introduced due to various factors and is practically unavoidable. Presence even a small amount of skew (0.50) will have detrimental effects on document analysis as it has a direct effect on the reliability and efficiency of segmentation, recognition and feature extraction stages. Therefore removal of skew is of paramount importance in the field of document analysis and OCR and is the first step to be accomplished. This paper presents a novel technique for skew detection and correction which is both language and content independent. The proposed technique is based on the maximum density of the foreground pixels and their orientation in the document image. Unlike other conventional algorithms which work only for machine printed textual documents scripted in English, this technique works well for all kinds of document images (machine printed, hand written, complex, noisy and simple). The technique presented here is tested with 150 different document image samples and is found to provide results with an accuracy of 0.10

Multi-Oriented Text Extraction in Stylistic Documents

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 1550002
Author(s):  
Brij Mohan Singh ◽  
Rahul Sharma ◽  
Debashis Ghosh ◽  
Ankush Mittal
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Morphological Operations ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Text Extraction ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Engineering Drawings ◽  
Flood Fill

In many documents such as maps, engineering drawings and artistic documents, etc. there exist many printed as well as handwritten materials where text regions and text-lines are not parallel to each other, curved in nature, and having various types of text such as different font size, text and non-text areas lying close to each other and non-straight, skewed and warped text-lines. Optical character recognition (OCR) systems available commercially such as ABYY fine reader and Free OCR, are not capable of handling different ranges of stylistic document images containing curved, multi-oriented, and stylish font text-lines. Extraction of individual text-lines and words from these documents is generally not straight forward. Most of the segmentation works reported is on simple documents but still it remains a highly challenging task to implement an OCR that works under all possible conditions and gives highly accurate results, especially in the case of stylistic documents. This paper presents dilation and flood fill morphological operations based approach that extracts multi-oriented text-lines and words from the complex layout or stylistic document images in the subsequent stages. The segmentation results obtained from our method proves to be superior over the standard profiling-based method.

scholarly journals YORÙBÁNET: A DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK DESIGN FOR YORÙBÁ ALPHABETS RECOGNITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyeniran Oluwashina Akinloye ◽  
Oyebode Ebenezer Olukunle
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Network Design ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Test Set ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Optical Character

Numerous works have been proposed and implemented in computerization of various human languages, nevertheless, miniscule effort have also been made so as to put Yorùbá Handwritten Character on the map of Optical Character Recognition. This study presents a novel technique in the development of Yorùbá alphabets recognition system through the use of deep learning. The developed model was implemented on Matlab R2018a environment using the developed framework where 10,500 samples of dataset were for training and 2100 samples were used for testing. The training of the developed model was conducted using 30 Epoch, at 164 iteration per epoch while the total iteration is 4920 iterations. Also, the training period was estimated to 11296 minutes 41 seconds. The model yielded the network accuracy of 100% while the accuracy of the test set is 97.97%, with F1 score of 0.9800, Precision of 0.9803 and Recall value of 0.9797.

scholarly journals Corpus-based technique for improving Arabic OCR system

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
Ahmed Hussain Aliwy ◽  
Basheer Al-Sadawi
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Language Model ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Statistical Language Model ◽  
Text Document ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Arabic Ocr

<p><span>An optical character recognition (OCR) refers to a process of converting the text document images into editable and searchable text. OCR process poses several challenges in particular in the Arabic language due to it has caused a high percentage of errors. In this paper, a method, to improve the outputs of the Arabic Optical character recognition (AOCR) Systems is suggested based on a statistical language model built from the available huge corpora. This method includes detecting and correcting non-word and real words error according to the context of the word in the sentence. The results show that the percentage of improvement in the results is up to (98%) as a new accuracy for AOCR output. </span></p>

scholarly journals Optical Character Recognition from Printed Text Images

2019 ◽  
pp. 597-604 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dr. T. Kameswara Rao ◽  
K. Yashwanth Chowdary ◽  
I. Koushik Chowdary ◽  
K. Prasanna Kumar ◽  
Ch. Ramesh
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Corner Point ◽  
Document Retrieval ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Image Region ◽  
Text Documents ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Simple Program ◽  
Point Detection

In recent years, text extraction from document images is one of the most widely studied topics in Image Analysis and Optical Character Recognition. These extractions of document images can be used for document analysis, content analysis, document retrieval and many more. Many complex text extracting processes Maximization Likelihood (ML), Edge point detection, Corner point detection etc. are used to extract text documents from images. In this article, the corner point approach was used. To extract document from images we used a very simple approach based on FAST algorithm. Firstly, we divided the image into blocks and their density in each block was checked. The denser blocks were labeled as text blocks and the less dense were the image region or noise. Then we check the connectivity of the blocks to group the blocks so that the text part can be isolated from the image. This method is very fast and versatile, it can be used to detect various languages, handwriting and even images with a lot of noise and blur. Even though it is a very simple program the precision of this method is closer or higher than 90%. In conclusion, this method helps in more accurate and less complex detection of text from document images.

scholarly journals Character Segmentation and Skew Correction for Handwritten Devanagari Scripts: A Friends Technique

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Ashok Kumar Bathla . ◽  
Sunil Kumar Gupta .
Keyword(s):  
Human Brain ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Character Segmentation ◽  
Novel Technique ◽  
Skew Correction ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Handwritten Text ◽  
Scripting Language ◽  
The Way

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology allows a computer to “read” text (both typed and handwritten) the way a human brain does.Significant research efforts have been put in the area of Optical Character Segmentation (OCR) of typewritten text in various languages, however very few efforts have been put on the segmentation and skew correction of handwritten text written in Devanagari which is a scripting language of Hindi. This paper aims a novel technique for segmentation and skew correction of hand written Devanagari text. It shows the accuracy of 91% and takes less than one second to segment a particular handwritten word.

scholarly journals Exposure Bracketing Techniques for Camera Document Image Enhancement

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4529
Author(s):  
Tao Liu ◽  
Hao Liu ◽  
Yingying Wu ◽  
Bo Yin ◽  
Zhiqiang Wei
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Document Image ◽  
Automatic Registration ◽  
Digital Cameras ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Registration Method ◽  
Lighting Conditions ◽  
High Quality Image ◽  
Multiple Document

Capturing document images using digital cameras in uneven lighting conditions is challenging, leading to poorly captured images, which hinders the processing that follows, such as Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In this paper, we propose the use of exposure bracketing techniques to solve this problem. Instead of capturing one image, we used several images that were captured with different exposure settings and used the exposure bracketing technique to generate a high-quality image that incorporates useful information from each image. We found that this technique can enhance image quality and provides an effective way of improving OCR accuracy. Our contributions in this paper are two-fold: (1) a preprocessing chain that uses exposure bracketing techniques for document images is discussed, and an automatic registration method is proposed to find the geometric disparity between multiple document images, which lays the foundation for exposure bracketing; (2) several representative exposure bracketing algorithms are incorporated in the processing chain and their performances are evaluated and compared.

scholarly journals Robust Combined Binarization Method of Non-Uniformly Illuminated Document Images for Alphanumerical Character Recognition

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (10) ◽  
pp. 2914
Author(s):  
Hubert Michalak ◽  
Krzysztof Okarma
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Accuracy ◽  
Image Data ◽  
Document Images ◽  
Historical Document ◽  
Image Binarization ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Binarization Method ◽  
Camera Sensors

Image binarization is one of the key operations decreasing the amount of information used in further analysis of image data, significantly influencing the final results. Although in some applications, where well illuminated images may be easily captured, ensuring a high contrast, even a simple global thresholding may be sufficient, there are some more challenging solutions, e.g., based on the analysis of natural images or assuming the presence of some quality degradations, such as in historical document images. Considering the variety of image binarization methods, as well as their different applications and types of images, one cannot expect a single universal thresholding method that would be the best solution for all images. Nevertheless, since one of the most common operations preceded by the binarization is the Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which may also be applied for non-uniformly illuminated images captured by camera sensors mounted in mobile phones, the development of even better binarization methods in view of the maximization of the OCR accuracy is still expected. Therefore, in this paper, the idea of the use of robust combined measures is presented, making it possible to bring together the advantages of various methods, including some recently proposed approaches based on entropy filtering and a multi-layered stack of regions. The experimental results, obtained for a dataset of 176 non-uniformly illuminated document images, referred to as the WEZUT OCR Dataset, confirm the validity and usefulness of the proposed approach, leading to a significant increase of the recognition accuracy.

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