Printed text documents watermarking based on vertical word shift and word fragments brightness changing

Abstract

This paper describes the results of the development of methods for marking text documents represented as a raster image. An important feature of the algorithms is the possibility wipe current document mark and embed another one. The study refers to structural marking algorithms based on vertical word shifts and brightness changes of certain areas of the words. Segmentation tools are used to obtain document layout, BCH codes for error correction, a likelihood maximization method for label extraction, and a neural network for perturbed words recovery. Testing has proved the practical applicability of the algorithms with printing and scanning.