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Image detection in scanned images

Detecting pictures in scanned document pages has many advantages such as better compression rates and the possibility to extract them individually.

Detecting pictures in scanned document pages has many advantages such as better compression rates and the possibility to extract them individually.

A scanned page is originally a raster image consisting of bi-level or color pixels. Since we have sophisticated compression methods scanning in color is clearly preferred over pure black / white modes...

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Pdftools counts more than 5,000 companies and organizations in 70 countries among its customers, making it one of the world’s leading producers of software solutions and developer components for PDF and PDF/A products. The product range support the entire document flow, from raw materials to scanning processes through to signing…

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