TY - JOUR AV - none JF - Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering VL - 285 LN N2 - Conversion from gray scale or color document image into binary image is the main step in most of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems and document analysis. After digitization, document images often suffer from poor contrast, noise, uniform lighting, and shadow. Also when a page of book is digitized using a scanner or a camera, a border noise, which is an unwanted text coming from the adjacent page, may appear. In this paper we present a simple and efficient document image clean up by border noise removal and enhancement based on retinex theory and global threshold. The proposed method produces high quality results compared to the previous works. © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2014. KW - Electrical engineering; Mathematical techniques KW - Binarizations; Border Noise; Border noise removals; Color document images; Document analysis; Optical character recognition (OCR); Retinex theory; Thresholding KW - Optical character recognition EP - 352 UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84958527356&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-4585-18-7_39&partnerID=40&md5=a48697531fc5e968e8fbc87935a315a0 CY - Kuala Lumpur PB - Springer Verlag SP - 345 N1 - cited By 8; Conference of 1st International Conference on Advanced Data and Information Engineering, DaEng 2013 ; Conference Date: 16 December 2013 Through 18 December 2013; Conference Code:102583 Y1 - 2014/// A1 - Wagdy, M. A1 - Faye, I. A1 - Rohaya, D. ID - scholars4518 SN - 18761100 TI - Border noise removal and clean up based on retinex theory ER -