A Review of Document Image Noise Removal Techniques

Lalit Prakash Saxena*
Applied Research Section, Combo Consultancy, Sonebhadra, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Periodicity:July - September'2020
DOI : https://doi.org/10.26634/jip.7.3.17324

Abstract

The digitization of documents are popular with its enhanced portability, efficient storage, and easy retrieval. Digital acquisition of documents gets carried over through transmission with added noise. The process of removing the noises from digital images using the image processing techniques or image analysis methods or filters is referred to as noise removal methods, or techniques, or algorithms. This paper presents the review of literatures of noise removal methods efficient enough in removing unwanted noise from the document images. This paper discusses the methodology, contributions, advantages, and disadvantages of the reviewed methods. Further, it also highlights the problems in document image noise removal with the future scope.

Keywords

Document Images, Noise Removal, Image Processing, Digital Images, Unwanted Noise.

How to Cite this Article?

Saxena, L. P. (2020). A Review of Document Image Noise Removal Techniques. i-manager's Journal on Image Processing, 7(3), 29-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jip.7.3.17324

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