Background removal of document images acquired using portable digital cameras

  • Authors:
  • André R. Gomes e Silva;Rafael Dueire Lins

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil;Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • ICIAR'05 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Image Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Portable digital cameras have widespread recently. Their image quality, low cost and portability have drastically changed the culture of photography, today. Many professionals start to take photos of documents, instead of photocopying them. This paper presents an algorithm designed to remove the background of document images acquired through portable digital cameras.