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A hybrid spatial blur detection and restoration algorithm for smartphone captured document images.

U Karthik1, B J Bipin Nair2, N Shobha Rani3

  • 1Department of Computer Science, School of Computing, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru, India.

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This study introduces a new image enhancement pipeline for restoring blurred text documents. The robust method effectively improves degraded documents, making them suitable for archival and OCR applications.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Vision
  • Image Processing
  • Document Analysis

Background:

  • Restoring severely blurred and degraded text documents is challenging, especially with non-uniform blur and illumination.
  • Existing methods struggle with complex degradation conditions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a robust image enhancement pipeline for restoring and binarizing text documents.
  • To evaluate the pipeline's effectiveness against various degradation levels and existing methods.

Main Methods:

  • The pipeline integrates Richardson-Lucy deblurring, frequency and spatial domain blur estimation, morphological filtering, and adaptive thresholding.
  • Comparison with Sauvola, Niblack, Wolf, Bernsen, and Richardson-Lucy alone.
  • Quantitative analysis using F-Measure, PSNR, SSIM, Misclassification Error (ME), and Negative Predictive Measure (NPM) on 417 text images.
Keywords:
BlurDegradationImage enhancementOCRSmartphone images

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Main Results:

  • The proposed method demonstrated effectiveness in restoring text documents under two blur degradation levels.
  • Combining the method with global binarization yielded reliable results, though with some loss of text detail.
  • Statistical analyses confirmed the method's robustness and stability.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed image enhancement pipeline offers a robust solution for degraded text document restoration and binarization.
  • The method's simplicity and adaptability make it suitable for pre-processing in archival, legal, and OCR applications.