A novel binarization method for degraded tamil palm leaf images

Asian countries like Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand and India used Palm leaves to record vital information, to pass it down the generations. Palm Leaves are innate, organic items and presented to attrition because of climatic elements, light and insects. This poses a hazard in scrutinizing the invaluable details. Preservation and translation of information on these palm leaves into a digital format is essential in unraveling the treasure of wisdom from our ancestors. As information written on the leaves was during various eras, most of the runes are not used today. Identifying and equating them with our current dialect is of prime importance. It is tough to extract the text from the document that is altered by physiological factors that leads to degradation. To increase the resolution of the picture two pace way is utilized in which weighed encoding with otsu and mean-shift algorithm are used. These methods jointly extract the image from the degraded tamil plam leaf image effectively for further processing. This approach will lead to preprocessing technique in the automated way.