Segmentation and automatic descreening of scanned documents

Alejandro Jaimes; Frederick C. Mintzer; A. Ravishankar Rao; Gerry Thompson

doi:10.1117/12.334597

22 December 1998 Segmentation and automatic descreening of scanned documents

Alejandro Jaimes, Frederick C. Mintzer, A. Ravishankar Rao, Gerry Thompson

Proceedings Volume 3648, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts IV; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334597
Event: Electronic Imaging '99, 1999, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

One of the major challenges in scanning and printing documents in a digital library is the preservation of the quality of the documents and in particular of the images they contain. When photographs are offset-printed, the process of screening usually takes place. During screening, a continuous tone image is converted into a bi-level image by applying a screen to replace each color in the original image. When high-resolution scanning of screened images is performed, it is very common in the digital version of the document to observe the screen patterns used during the original printing. In addition, when printing the digital document, more effects tend to appear because printing requires halftoning. In order to automatically suppress these moire patterns, it is necessary to detect the image areas of the document and remove the screen pattern present in those areas. In this paper, we present efficient and robust techniques to segment a grayscale document into halftone image areas, detect the presence and frequency of screen patterns in halftone areas and suppress their detected screens. We present novel techniques to perform fast segmentation based on (alpha) -crossings, detection of screen frequencies using a fast accumulator function and suppression of detected screens by low-pass filtering.

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Alejandro Jaimes, Frederick C. Mintzer, A. Ravishankar Rao, and Gerry Thompson "Segmentation and automatic descreening of scanned documents", Proc. SPIE 3648, Color Imaging: Device-Independent Color, Color Hardcopy, and Graphic Arts IV, (22 December 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.334597

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