Skew estimation and correction for form documents using wavelet decomposition

Dihua Xi, Mohamed Kamel, Seong Whan Lee

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Abstract

Form document image processing has become an increasingly essential technology in office automation tasks. One of the problems is that the document image may appear skewed for many reasons. Therefore, the skew estimation plays an important role in any automatic document analysis system. In the past few years, many algorithms have been developed to detect the skew angle of text document images. However, these algorithms suffer from two major deficiencies. Firstly, most of them suppose that the original image is monochrome and therefore they are not suitable to apply to documents with a complicated background. Secondly, most of the current methods were developed for general document images that are not as complicated as form documents. In this paper, we present a new approach to skew detection for grey-level form document images. In our system, image decomposition by 2D wavelet transformations is used to estimate the skew angle.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Pages182-190
Number of pages9
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
Event2nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2005 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 2005 Sept 282005 Sept 30

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume3656 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other2nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, ICIAR 2005
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period05/9/2805/9/30

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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