| ADAS | advanced driver-assistance system |
| DIBCO | document image binarization competition |
| DRD | distance reciprocal distortion |
| FAIR | fast algorithm for document image restoration |
| ICDAR | International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition |
| ICFHR | International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition |
| MPM | misclassification penalty metric |
| OCR | optical character recognition |
| PERR | pixel error rate |
| PSNR | peak signal to noise ratio |
| SVM | support vector machines |