Reconstruction of Shredded Document Using Image Mosaicing Technique

Abstract

Reconstruction of sharedded pieces is requisite in archaeology, art conservation, and forensics for Recovery of important information from shredded and damage documents. Documents can be machine-shredded or hand-shredded. Reconstructing the document manually with the help of glue, sellotape etc is a tedious and time consuming process as well as the output is not satisfactory. Hence, here we are illustrating a process to recover the original document from its shredded pieces by using the concept of Image Mosaicing. Image Mosaicing is a process where two or more shredded images are merged together to form a single, continuous image. Here, in this paper we have to reconstruct the shredded fragments and then find Accuracy of two types of torn fragments one is strip shredded and another one is hand shredded fragments. The input of shredded pieces is scanned or capture by camera and various processing is applied to match the two or more shredded piece and in the last stage the shredded pieces are finally stitched and the original document is recovered.