RECOVERY OF DOCUMENT TEXT FROM TORN FRAGMENTS USING IMAGE PROCESSING

Recovery of document from its torn or damaged fragments play an important role in the field of forensics and archival study. Reconstruction of the torn papers manually with the help of glue and tapes etc., is tedious, time consuming and not satisfactory. For torn images reconstruction we go for image mosaicing, where we reconstruct the image using features (corners) and RANSAC with homography.But for the torn fragments there is no such similarity portion between fragments. Hence we propose a new process to recover the original document form its torn pieces by using the Binary image processing techniques with region properties of the torn pieces. Our mehodology for recovery of torn pieces can be solved in three simple stages. Initially the torn pieces of the document are acquired as input. The torn pieces are straightening to axis using HORIZON function and they are concatenated. The torn fragments are segmented based on the regionpropertiethen concatenated the segmented images. Finally by creating mask the concatenated images are going to combined