JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(2): 299-313, doi: 10.3217/jucs-014-02-0299
A New and Efficient Algorithm to Binarize Document Images Removing Back-to-Front Interference
expand article info João Marcelo Monte Da Silva‡, Rafael Dueire Lins§, Fernando Mário Junqueira Martins|, Rosita Wachenchauzer
‡ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil§ Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil| Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal¶ Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Corresponding author: João Marcelo Monte Da Silva ( joaommsilva@gmail.com )

© João Marcelo Monte Da Silva, Rafael Lins, Fernando Mário Junqueira Martins, Rosita Wachenchauzer.
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Citation: João Marcelo Monte Da Silva, Lins RD, Martins FMJ, Wachenchauzer R (2008) A New and Efficient Algorithm to Binarize Document Images Removing Back-to-Front Interference. JUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science 14(2): 299-313. https://doi.org/10.3217/jucs-014-02-0299
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Abstract
"Back-to-front interference", "bleeding" and "show-through"is the name given to the phenomenon found whenever documents are written on both sides of translucent paper and the print of one side is visible on the other one. The binarization of documents with back-to-front interference with standard algorithms yields unreadable documents. This paper presents a fast entropy-based segmentation method for generating high-quality binarized images of documents with back-to-front interference.
Keywords
document engineering, back-to-front interference, show through, bleeding