Text Extraction and Restoration of Old Handwritten Documents

23 Jan 2020  ·  Mayank Wadhwani, Debapriya Kundu, Deepayan Chakraborty, Bhabatosh Chanda ·

Image restoration is very crucial computer vision task. This paper describes two novel methods for the restoration of old degraded handwritten documents using deep neural network. In addition to that, a small-scale dataset of 26 heritage letters images is introduced. The ground truth data to train the desired network is generated semi automatically involving a pragmatic combination of color transformation, Gaussian mixture model based segmentation and shape correction by using mathematical morphological operators. In the first approach, a deep neural network has been used for text extraction from the document image and later background reconstruction has been done using Gaussian mixture modeling. But Gaussian mixture modelling requires to set parameters manually, to alleviate this we propose a second approach where the background reconstruction and foreground extraction (which which includes extracting text with its original colour) both has been done using deep neural network. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed systems perform well on handwritten document images with severe degradations, even when trained with small dataset. Hence, the proposed methods are ideally suited for digital heritage preservation repositories. It is worth mentioning that, these methods can be extended easily for printed degraded documents.

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