ENet-GP: Unified Document Image Restoration
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Abstract (arXiv)
Reliable document digitization in uncontrolled capture settings is challenging because real images exhibit multiple interacting degradations rather than a single isolated distortion. Documents thus captured are affected simultaneously by geometric distortions, like page warping, as well as photometric degradations such as non-uniform illumination, and blurring. However, most existing approaches address these factors independently and are evaluated on benchmarks containing only one distortion type, limiting their real-world applicability. We introduce GutenDoc, a large-scale dataset of high-resolution dense-text documents with physically grounded compound degradations. Using physics-based rendering, our dataset jointly models geometric warping and diverse photometric effects, enabling systematic evaluation under realistic capture conditions. We further propose a unified restoration framework that jointly corrects geometric and photometric distortions within a single-network and single-training setup, without the need for degradation-specific retraining or sequential inference passes. Extensive experiments show that our method remains competitive on established single-distortion benchmarks while substantially improving robustness under compound degradations, providing a practical solution for real-world document digitization.
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