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Noise Reduction in Urdu Document Image–Spatial and Frequency Domain Approaches

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Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012)

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With advancement in optical character recognition technology, now it is possible to digitize printed and handwritten documents and to make it editable and searchable for many scripts and languages. But still the major challenges which need to be simplify in case of Urdu script is segmentation dilemma. The segmentation of Urdu text is untouched by most of the researchers due to complexity in Urdu script. An ideal preprocessing for Urdu script may reduce these complexities and simplify the segmentation process. The noise removal in Urdu is complex due to importance of dots and modifiers which are similar to noise. In character recognition system preprocessing intends to remove/reduce the noise, normalize image against present variations like skewness, slant, size etc. and minimize the storage requirement to increase processing speed. In present paper an attempt is made to recapitulate various preprocessing techniques proposed in literature for Arabic, Persian, Jawi and Urdu. Also the enhancement of the dark and noisy Urdu document is done using histogram equalization, spatial max and median filter, and frequency domain Gaussian Lowpass Filters. These noise free document image can help to improve further segmentation and feature extraction process.

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This work is sponsored by a G.H. Raisoni Doctoral fellowship, North Maharashtra University, Jalgoan. The author would like to acknowledge for their financial support.

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Ramteke, R.J., Pathan, I.K. (2013). Noise Reduction in Urdu Document Image–Spatial and Frequency Domain Approaches. In: S, M., Kumar, S. (eds) Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012). Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 222. Springer, India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1000-9_42

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