A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents

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 effecti...

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Main Authors: Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle, Othman, A.K., Abidin, W.A.W.Z, Shahrol, Mohamaddan, Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2010
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author Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle
Othman, A.K.
Abidin, W.A.W.Z
Shahrol, Mohamaddan
Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki
author_facet Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle
Othman, A.K.
Abidin, W.A.W.Z
Shahrol, Mohamaddan
Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki
author_sort Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle
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description 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.
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spelling unimas-162932017-05-18T08:22:12Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16293/ A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle Othman, A.K. Abidin, W.A.W.Z Shahrol, Mohamaddan Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki T Technology (General) 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. IEEE 2010 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16293/1/A%20Thresholding%20Algorithm%20for%20Text%20Background%28abstract%29.pdf Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle and Othman, A.K. and Abidin, W.A.W.Z and Shahrol, Mohamaddan and Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki (2010) A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents. Second International Conference on Advances in Computing, Control and Telecommunication Technologies (ACT), 2010. ISSN ISBN: 978-1-4244-8746-2 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5675839/ DOI: 10.1109/ACT.2010.43
spellingShingle T Technology (General)
Tengku Mohd Afendi, Zulcaffle
Othman, A.K.
Abidin, W.A.W.Z
Shahrol, Mohamaddan
Ade Syaheda Wani, Marzuki
A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title_full A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title_fullStr A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title_full_unstemmed A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title_short A Thresholding Algorithm for Text/Background Segmentation in Degraded Handwritten Jawi Documents
title_sort thresholding algorithm for text/background segmentation in degraded handwritten jawi documents
topic T Technology (General)
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16293/
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http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16293/
http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/16293/1/A%20Thresholding%20Algorithm%20for%20Text%20Background%28abstract%29.pdf