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A new algorithm for removing noisy borders from monochromatic documents

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Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Nicosia, Cyprus

SESSION: Multimedia and visualization (MV) table of contents

Pages: 1219 - 1225

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-812-1

Authors

Bruno Tenório Ávila	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil
Rafael Dueire Lins	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife - PE, Brazil

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents a new and efficient algorithm for removing noisy borders in monochromatic images of documents introduced by the digitalisation process using automatically fed scanners.

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CITED BY 2

	Rafael Dueire Lins , Bruno Tenório Ávila, BigBatch: a toolbox for monochromatic documents, Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Document engineering, November 02-04, 2005, Bristol, United Kingdom
	Giorgia Mattos , Rafael Dueire Lins , Andrei de Araújo Formiga , Fernando Mário Junqueira Martins, BigBatch: a document processing platform for clusters and grids, Proceedings of the 2008 ACM symposium on Applied computing, March 16-20, 2008, Fortaleza, Ceara, Brazil

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Keywords:
binary images, border removal, document image analysis

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