Independent component analysis for document restoration

Authors:
Anna Tonazzini;Luigi Bedini;Emanuele Salerno
Affiliations:
Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy;Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy;Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Via G. Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy
Venue:
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition
Year:
2004

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Abstract

We propose a novel approach to restoring digital document images, with the aim of improving text legibility and OCR performance. These are often compromised by the presence of artifacts in the background, derived from many kinds of degradations, such as spots, underwritings, and show-through or bleed-through effects. So far, background removal techniques have been based on local, adaptive filters and morphological-structural operators to cope with frequent low-contrast situations. For the specific problem of bleed-through/show-through, most work has been based on the comparison between the front and back pages. This, however, requires a preliminary registration of the two images. Our approach is based on viewing the problem as one of separating overlapped texts and then reformulating it as a blind source separation problem, approached through independent component analysis techniques. These methods have the advantage that no models are required for the background. In addition, we use the spectral components of the image at different bands, so that there is no need for registration. Examples of bleed-through cancellation and recovery of underwriting from palimpsests are provided.