EraseNet: A Recurrent Residual Network for Supervised Document Cleaning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.00708v2
• Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2023 13:28:48 GMT
• Title: EraseNet: A Recurrent Residual Network for Supervised Document Cleaning
• Authors: Yashowardhan Shinde, Kishore Kulkarni, Sachin Kuberkar
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces a supervised approach for cleaning dirty documents using a new fully convolutional auto-encoder architecture. The experiments in this paper have shown promising results as the model is able to learn a variety of ordinary as well as unusual noises and rectify them efficiently.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Document denoising is considered one of the most challenging tasks in computer vision. There exist millions of documents that are still to be digitized, but problems like document degradation due to natural and man-made factors make this task very difficult. This paper introduces a supervised approach for cleaning dirty documents using a new fully convolutional auto-encoder architecture. This paper focuses on restoring documents with discrepancies like deformities caused due to aging of a document, creases left on the pages that were xeroxed, random black patches, lightly visible text, etc., and also improving the quality of the image for better optical character recognition system (OCR) performance. Removing noise from scanned documents is a very important step before the documents as this noise can severely affect the performance of an OCR system. The experiments in this paper have shown promising results as the model is able to learn a variety of ordinary as well as unusual noises and rectify them efficiently.

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