Title :
Assessing and Improving the Quality of Document Images Acquired with Portable Digital Cameras
Author :
Lins, Rafael Dueire ; Silva, Gabriel Pereira ; Gomes e Silva, A.R.
Author_Institution :
Univ. Fed. de Pernambuco, Recife
Abstract :
Professionals and students of many different areas start to use portable digital cameras to take photos of documents, instead of photocopying them. This article analyses the quality of such documents for optical character recognition and proposes ways of improving their transcription and readability.
Keywords :
cameras; document image processing; optical character recognition; document image acquisition; document image quality; optical character recognition; portable digital camera; Character recognition; Digital cameras; Humans; Image quality; Image recognition; Lenses; Lighting; Optical character recognition software; Testing; Ultraviolet sources;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007. ICDAR 2007. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Parana
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2822-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4376979
