This paper presents a novel, general purpose and multi-applications color segmentation system providing optimal
chromatic and achromatic layers and filtering the hue and illumination distortions, with minimal information
loss. A text extraction method based on the resulting segmentation is proposed to illustrate the usefulness of
the method. The system is validated through the evaluation of a well-known commercial OCR line segmentation
performances on the processed images.
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