Binarization for document images
This tool performs document image binarization using a trained ResNet50-UNet model.
Clone the repository, enter it and run
pip install .
Pre-trained models in HDF5
format can be downloaded from here:
https://qurator-data.de/sbb_binarization/
We also provide a Tensorflow saved_model
via Huggingface:
https://huggingface.co/SBB/sbb_binarization
sbb_binarize \
-m <path to directory containing model files \
<input image> \
<output image>
Images containing a lot of border noise (black pixels) should be cropped beforehand to improve the quality of results.
sbb_binarize -m /path/to/model/ myimage.tif myimage-bin.tif
To use the OCR-D interface:
ocrd-sbb-binarize --overwrite -I INPUT_FILE_GRP -O OCR-D-IMG-BIN -P model "/var/lib/sbb_binarization"