Adaptive Binarization of Ancient Documents

Abstract

It is common for libraries to provide public access to historical and ancient document image collections. Such document images to require specialized processing in order to remove background noise and become more legible. In this paper the proposed approach is adapted from the kavallieratov’s algorithm for cleaning background noise from the ancient documents by iterative global thresholding and local thresholding technique. Finally the image quality is enhanced by using morphological technique and compared with other methods in the process of cleaning.