Denoising Dirty Documents

Introduction

This project is based on Kaggle's competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/denoising-dirty-documents The challenge is to removed different types of synthetic noises from scanned texts.

Approach

Small windows (e.g ) of the scanned texts are passed through an autoencoder-like neural network. Detailed architecture can be found in code and project report.

Some demo (from competition's test files)

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