Enhancing Book and Document Digitization from Videos: A Feature Fusion-Based Approach

In an age where preserving knowledge and information from books and documents is crucial, traditional manual scanning methods are tedious and error-prone. It involves a lot of human intervention and, as a result, sometimes results in erroneous digitization, which makes the downstream tasks, such as optical character recognition, difficult. Therefore, innovative techniques are required to be proposed that not only reduce human effort in terms of digitization but also give highly accurate results over the recently proposed state-of-the-art techniques. We proposed a novel computer vision-based algorithm that combines Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) features with Thepade’s 10-ary texture features (TSBTC) for video frame classification. This hybrid approach significantly enhances frame selection accuracy, ensures high-quality digitization, and accommodates multiple languages and document types. We also proposed a dataset of 54,000 diverse images to demonstrate our algorithm’s effectiveness in real-world scenarios and compare it to existing methods, making a valuable contribution to document digitization. The proposed dataset can be utilized for several document image analysis tasks.