An Adaptive Thresholding Algorithm-Based Optical Character Recognition System for Information Extraction in Complex Images

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dc.contributor.authorOguntunde, Bosede
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-12T09:17:25Z
dc.date.available2022-10-12T09:17:25Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractExtracting texts from images with complex backgrounds is a major challenge today. Many existing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems could not handle this problem. As reported in the literature, some existing methods that can handle the problem still encounter major difficulties with extracting texts from images with sharp varying contours, touching word and skewed words from scanned documents and images with such complex backgrounds. There is, therefore, a need for new methods that could easily and efficiently extract texts from these images with complex backgrounds, which is the primary reason for this work. This study collected image data and investigated the processes involved in image processing and the techniques applied for data segmentation. It employed an adaptive thresholding algorithm to the selected images to properly segment text characters from the image’s complex background. It then used Tesseract, a machine learning product, to extract the text from the image file. The images used were coloured images sourced from the internet with different formats like jpg, png, webp and different resolutions. A custom adaptive algorithm was applied to the images to unify their complex backgrounds. This algorithm leveraged on the Gaussian thresholding algorithm. The algorithm differs from the conventional Gaussian algorithm as it dynamically generated the blocksize to apply threshing to the image. This ensured that, unlike conventional image segmentation, images were processed area-wise (in pixels) as specified by the algorithm at each instance. The system was implemented using Python 3.6 programming language. Experimentation involved fifty different images with complex backgrounds. The results showed that the system was able to extract English character-based texts from images with complex backgrounds with 69.7% word-level accuracy and 81.9% character-level accuracy. The proposed method in this study proved to be more efficient as it outperformed the existing methods in terms of the character level percentage accuracy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.run.edu.ng:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3705
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherJournal of Computer Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesVol. 16 No. 6;
dc.subjectAdaptive Threshold Algorithmen_US
dc.subjectComplex Backgroundsen_US
dc.subjectImagesen_US
dc.subjectOptical Character Recognitionen_US
dc.subjectPattern Recognitionen_US
dc.titleAn Adaptive Thresholding Algorithm-Based Optical Character Recognition System for Information Extraction in Complex Imagesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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