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—Adaptive educational hypermedia allows lessons to be personalized according to the needs of the learner. However, to achieve this, content must be split into stand-alone fragmen...
Jonathan G. K. Foss, Alexandra I. Cristea, Maurice...
—Document Image Binarization techniques have been studied for many years, and many practical binarization techniques have been developed and applied successfully on commercial do...