Title :
Optical Character Recognition Techniques for Restoration of Thai Historical Documents
Author :
Tangwongsan, Supachai ; Sumetphong, Chaivatna
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Mahidol Univ., Bangkok
Abstract :
Historical documents are national treasures. Insignificant effort has been made to restore Thai historical documents. Other nations such as Egypt, China, Greece, and USA are investing a large effort in restoring and preserving their national historical documents. This study is towards creating a framework that is directed towards digitally restoring Thai historical document. As a starting point, the focus is on using one Thai historical document for performing experiments and verifying OCR methods available in this research area. We also present our approach in resolving one of the main issues in all historical documents - broken characters.
Keywords :
character recognition; document image processing; history; image restoration; China; Egypt; Greece; Thai historical documents; USA; broken characters; image restoration; optical character recognition techniques; Character recognition; Computer science; Degradation; Digital images; Electric breakdown; Image restoration; Optical character recognition software; Optical computing; Pixel; Printing; Broken Characters; Historical Documents; OCR; Thai;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Electrical Engineering, 2008. ICCEE 2008. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Phuket
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3504-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICCEE.2008.142
