Research and Development Laboratory of EPITA - Olena

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	Document Binarization
Description	Convert greyscale and color images to a binary (1-bit) image. This algorithm is based on a multi-scale implementation of the Sauvola's binarization.
Specifications	Estimated processing time: < 1s
Status	No development planned for now. Last update: September 2012
Disclaimer	We will never use/read/save any uploaded data for personal use. Only the last uploaded file and its associated results are stored on our servers during 15min for technical reasons.
Terms and conditions	You are free to use the generated results for any usage. However, if they are used for research purpose, please refer to our library by citing the following paper:"Efficient Multiscale Sauvola's Binarization".

Warning: do not open several tabs to send several images at the same time. You may not retrieve the expected results.

This algorithm has been developed in the context of the SCRIBO project of the Free Software Thematic Group, part of the "System@tic Paris-Région" cluster (France). This project is partially funded by the French Government, its economic development agencies, and by the Paris-Région institutions.

Source code is released under GNU GPLv2 license in our Git repository (See Download section) and available online in scribo/src/binarization/sauvola_ms.cc.

Parameters
k2		k3		k4		Window size

Choose one of the examples	Upload an image
	It must fulfill the following conditions: JPG, PNG, PNM, GIF, BMP, TIF 20 MB maximum.