Title
Enhance to read better: A Multi-Task Adversarial Network for Handwritten Document Image Enhancement
Abstract
•A Generative Adversarial Network for handwritten document image binarization.•We perform document binarization while ensuring text readability, simultaneously, by integrating a handwritten text recognition component within the proposed architecture.•The proposed model enhances different forms of documents, independently of the text language.•We achieve state-of-the-art performance on the public H-DIBCO datasets.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1016/j.patcog.2021.108370
Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Handwritten document image binarization,Document enhancement,Handwriting text recognition,Generative adversarial networks,Recurrent neural networks
Journal
123
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0031-3203
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sana Khamekhem Jemni100.34
Mohamed Ali Souibgui200.34
Yousri Kessentini310015.39
Alicia Fornés456348.56