“…The applications of DIAR are ubiquitous in our daily endeavor, as evidenced on several areas of document image enhancement such as binarisation (Tensmeyer & Martinez, 2017), skew correction (Vinod & Niranjan, 2018) and text extraction (Saabni, Asi & El-Sana, 2014). DIAR bears an imperative role in document salvaging tasks namely document image and information retrieval (Ahmed, Al-Khatib & Mahmoud, 2017), old and historical manuscripts (Saabni et al, 2014), digital libraries (Abidi, Siddiqi & Khurshid, 2011), and information extraction from images (Chen et al, 2011).…”