Computer Science – Graphics
Scientific paper
2010-04-06
Computer Science
Graphics
Proc. IAPR International Workshop on Graphics Recognition (2009) 263-270
Scientific paper
Separation of the text regions from background texture and graphics is an important step of any optical character recognition sytem for the images containg both texts and graphics. In this paper, we have presented a novel text/graphics separation technique for business card images captured with a cell-phone camera. At first, the background is eliminated at a coarse level based on intensity variance. This makes the foreground components distinct from each other. Then the non-text components are removed using various characteristic features of text and graphics. Finally, the text regions are skew corrected and binarized for further processing. Experimenting with business card images of various resolutions, we have found an optimum performance of 98.54% with 0.75 MP images, that takes 0.17 seconds processing time and 1.1 MB peak memory on a moderately powerful computer (DualCore 1.73 GHz Processor, 1 GB RAM, 1 MB L2 Cache). The developed technique is computationally efficient and consumes low memory so as to be applicable on mobile devices.
Basu Dipak Kumar
Basu Subhadip
Mollah Ayatullah Faruk
Nasipuri Mita
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