AUTOMATIC multilevel form colour dropout using graph cuts

Anupriya A Balikai, Sudeep Sundaram, Peter M Hall

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Abstract

We present a new efficient solution to the problem of form colour dropout, required for automated processing of machine-printed forms. Unlike previous methods, our solution does not require any prior information about the hardware, scanner settings, colour space parameters, document template information - indeed we require no prior information at all. Our approach demonstrates a new application of graph cuts; we apply a simple graph cut on the scanned form image in order to drop out fields, which have been printed in pre-defined colours unknown to our system. We effectively separate the machine-printed and hand-printed data from the template, thereby making simple the remaining steps involved in processing the document.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMCCSIS'08 - IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems; Proceedings of Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 and Gaming 2008: Design for Engaging Experience Soc. Interaction
PublisherIADIS
Pages127-133
Number of pages7
Publication statusPublished - 2008

Bibliographical note

Computer Graphics and Visualization 2008 and Gaming 2008: Design for Engaging Experience and Social Interaction 2008, MCCSIS'08 - IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. 22-27 July, 2008. Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Keywords

  • Digital image storage
  • Computers
  • Computer graphics
  • Visualization
  • Image processing
  • Image segmentation
  • Information systems
  • Color

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