Image Processing and Hatch Filter

Question

I am new to image processing and I started a simple project for recognizing text on images with a complex background. I want to use a stroke filter as a first step, but I cannot find enough stroke filter data to implement this.

I managed to find a clean definition of stroke filters. So does anyone know something about Stroke filters that may be useful to me for my implementation.

I found one interesting article here, but it does not explain the depth of the line filters http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&ved=0CBoQFjAD&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-video.eecs. berkeley.edu% 2FProceedings% 2FICIP2006% 2Fpdfs% 2F0001473.pdf & ei = qtxaS5ubEtHB4gbFj8HqBA & usg = AFQjCNEnXQCMAFnqPRHe2kNZ6JEidR1sQg & siggnn = w

Answer 1

Stroke filters are not a standard idea for image processing. Instead, it is a term created for the document to which you are attached, where they determine what they mean by the impact filter (section 2), and how you can implement one computational one (section 4).

Because of this, you are unlikely to find implementation in the standard toolbox; although you may want to look around for those who published the implementation, or contact the authors.

Basically, they say that you can identify the text in the image based on the typical properties of the text, in particular that the text has many structures, like strokes, with a certain spatial distribution.