Binarisation of photographed documents image quality and processing time assessment

Smartphones with cameras are omnipresent in today's world and are very often used to photograph documents. Document binarization is a key process in many document processing platforms. This competition on binarizing photographed documents assessed the quality and time performance of 13 new algorithms and 50 existing algorithms. The evaluation dataset is composed of offset, laser, and deskjet printed documents, photographed using four widely-used mobile devices with the strobe flash on and off, under two different angles and places of capture.