Text Extraction from Historical Document Images by the Combination of Several Thresholding Techniques

<table class="table-group" width="800px"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><img alt="934656.fig.002a" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/am/volume-2014/934656/figures/934656.fig.002a.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(a) </b>Original image</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><img alt="934656.fig.002b" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/am/volume-2014/934656/figures/934656.fig.002b.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(b) </b>Otsu’s thresholding result</td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><img alt="934656.fig.002c" src="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/am/volume-2014/934656/figures/934656.fig.002c.jpg"/></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td align="center"><table><tr><td><b>(c) </b>Corresponding histogram</td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<table>Global thresholding of degraded image.</table>

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Figure 2: Text Extraction from Historical Document Images by the Combination of Several Thresholding Techniques 