Text Extraction from Complex Background Images

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The rapid development of internet technology leads to an effective way to share ideas with digital information. Extracting text information from digital information especially complex background images has become increasingly important due to the demand of text understanding. In this paper, we propose a k-means clustering based method for text extraction. After locating text regions with the corner detection, an improved k-means algorithm is adopted to extract text from complex background. Experiment results show the high performance of the presented method.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 765-767)

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975-979

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September 2013

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