Overall picture degradation error for scanned images and the efficiency of character recognition

Tamas Sziranyi; Agoston Boroczki

doi:10.1117/12.56017

1 December 1991 Overall picture degradation error for scanned images and the efficiency of character recognition

Tamas Sziranyi, Agoston Boroczki

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 30, Issue 12, (December 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56017

Abstract

A new definition of picture degradation error caused by the sampling-transferring process in image scanners is described. The aim of this new error definition is to characterize the whole image transfer process. A method is shown based on calculation ofthis similarity error (which could also be called spectral distortion error) to estimate the possible character recognition error rate related to the optical transfer functions and sampling performance of the scanner. The increase of the probable reading error can be sufficiently estimated by the similarity error. Theoretical and experimental results are in good accordance. The different character types, scanners, and printer outputs can be characterized by this method, as well.

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Tamas Sziranyi and Agoston Boroczki "Overall picture degradation error for scanned images and the efficiency of character recognition," Optical Engineering 30(12), (1 December 1991). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.56017

Published: 1 December 1991

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