Table 5 Experimental results on the ICDAR 2015 dataset [18] with conventional binarization methods

Sauvola et al. [27]

49.59%

37.51%

42.71%

Otsu. [23]

45.20%

57.25%

50.52%

Howe [7]

63.26%

65.68%

64.45%

Ntirogiannis et al. [21]

70.41%

67.75%

69.06%

Proposed

71.49%

73.06%

72.27%