ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

There are several to whom we owe a sincere debt of gratitude. First and foremost we would like to express our heartiest gratitude to faculty guide, Mr. Davesh Kr. Sharma for giving us the golden opportunity to pursue our final year project titled Text Extraction from Images which is submitted to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering,

Vishveshwarya Institute of Engineering and Technology, GB Nagar, in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of the degree of Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). We are thankful for their significant and unmatched contribution and help towards this project.

We take this rarest of the rare chance to thank Vishveshwarya Institute of Engineering and Technology, GB Nagar for giving us the opportunity to let us complete our final year project under such a globally competitive exposure and hence giving us the necessary experience for our ever developing career. Finally we are thankful to our parents and friends, for giving us constant inspiration and providing us with the opportunities to continue our studies.

Dated:

Rohit Chauhan Raghav Singh Shivam

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Vivekanand Ojha 0909610118

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ABSTRACT

Text data present in images and video contain useful information for automatic annotation, indexing, and structuring of images. Extraction of this information involves detection, localization, tracking, extraction,

enhancement, and recognition of the text from a given image. However, variations of text due to differences in size, style, orientation, and alignment, as well as low image contrast and complex background make the problem of automatic text extraction extremely challenging. Text extraction requires binarization, which leads to loss of significant information contained in gray scale images. The images may contain noise and have complex structure, which makes the extraction more difficult. While comprehensive surveys of related problems such as face detection, document analysis, and image & video indexing can be found, the problem of text information extraction is not well surveyed. In computer vision, Segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments (sets of pixels, also known as super pixels). The result of image segmentation is a set of segments that collectively cover the entire image, or a set of contours extracted from the image (see edge detection). Each of the pixels in a region is similar with respect to some characteristic or computed property, such as color, intensity,

or texture. Adjacent regions are significantly different with respect to the same characteristic(s). When applied to a stack of images, typical in medical imaging, the resulting contours after image segmentation can be used to create 3D reconstructions with the help of interpolation algorithms like Marching cubes.

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