DocEng'2020 Time-Quality Competition on Binarizing Photographed Documents

ABSTRACTDocument image binarization is a key process in many document processing platforms. The DocEng'2020 Time-Quality Competition on Binarizing Photographed Documents assessed the performance of eight new algorithms and also 41 other "classical" algorithms. Besides the quality of the binary image, the execution time of the algorithms was assessed. The evaluation dataset is composed of 32 documents photographed using four widely-used mobile devices with the strobe flash on and off, under several different angles of capture.