How to blur text in image?

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Dominik Mattioli 2021-6-10

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I'd like to blur only the text found in some images (potentially-sensitive medical information). I'm struggling to remember how to convert bounding boxes into matrix indices, or whether there is a function that does the following.

img   = imread('businessCard.png');
imgOCR     = ocr( img )
for idx = 1:numel( imgOCR.Words )
    bbox    = imgOCR.WordBoundingBoxes( idx, : )
    subImg  = imcrop( img, bbox )
    K = medfilt2( subImg )
    %%% How to insert K back into img? something like:
    % newImg = iminsert( img, bbox, K );
end

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Image Analyst 2021-6-10

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Somehow you need to create a mask defining where the text is. Once you got that, blur the entire image, and blur the mask also. Then get the new larger mask and assign the blurred image to the original image in the blurred mask. In short, something like

windowSize = 15; % Whatever.
kernel = ones(windowSize, windowSize) / windowSize^2;
% Blur the mask and the image.
blurredImage = conv2(double(grayimage), kernel, 'same');
blurredMask = conv2(double(mask), kernel, 'same');
newMask = blurredMask > 0; % Mask is now bigger since it got blurred.
% Replace original pixels with blurred pixels.
grayImage(newMask) = blurredImage(newMask);

It would be easier to simply erase the image in the mask than to blur the text and replace it.

grayImage(mask) = 0;

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DGM 2022-1-26

编辑：DGM 2022-1-26

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You're only blurring the red channel, but I think there are other issues.

Since I don't have CVT, and I'm working on a screenshot of your image instead of the image itself, I just cut out a bunch of the code so that I could run it. You'll have to add the CVT stuff back in.

txtimg = imread('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/874225/image.png');

B = size(txtimg);

windowSize = 20; % doesn't need to be inside loop

kernel = ones(windowSize, windowSize) / windowSize^2; % or just use fspecial

bbox = [742 253 137 56]; % i just picked this box manually

[a,b] = size(bbox);

for i = 1:a

xi = horzcat( bbox( i,1 ), bbox( i,1 ), bbox( i,1) + bbox( i,3 ), bbox( i,1 ) + bbox( i,3 ) );

yi = horzcat( bbox( i,2 ), bbox( i,2 ) + bbox( i,4 ), bbox( i,2 ) + bbox( i,4 ), bbox( i,2 ) );

bw = poly2mask( xi, yi, B(1), B(2));

blurredImage = imfilter(txtimg,kernel,'same');

blurredMask = imfilter(im2double(bw),kernel,'same'); % cast input as double

% composite images by multiplication

txtimg = im2uint8(im2double(blurredImage).*blurredMask + im2double(txtimg).*(1-blurredMask));

end

imshow(txtimg);

The major points:

You were compositing the two images by means of logical indexing. That's fine, but your mask has a single channel, while your image has 3. Consequently, you're only addressing channel 1 (red). This also means that there really isn't much point in blurring the mask, since the indexing can't partially select a pixel.

Similarly, imfilter() will cast the output to match the input class. If you pass it a logical image, it will blur it and then threshold it again . The result is still a hard-edged mask. If you're trying to create a feathered mask, you have to make sure that the input to imfilter is numeric instead of logical.

In order to actually apply this feathered filter, do the compositing by multiplication. Pay attention to image class, as integer types have restrictions. It's easiest to do this in double and then cast back.

Minor points:

Depending on what exactly you want, you may find that a gaussian filter gives better results.

kernel = fspecial('gaussian',[20 20],10); % play with the size, sigma

Using hard-edged filters tends to cause edge-replication artifacts which may tend to be revealing of the original content.

If you really want to get rid of the content, either use a larger filter, or use a different method. Perhaps spatial downsampling would be an option:

txtimg = imread('https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/uploaded_files/874225/image.png');

B = size(txtimg);

windowSize = 20; % doesn't need to be inside loop

kernel = ones(windowSize, windowSize) / windowSize^2; % or just use fspecial

bbox = [742 253 137 56]; % i just picked this box manually

blurredImage = imresize(imresize(txtimg,1/15),B(1:2),'nearest');

[a,b] = size(bbox);

for i = 1:a

xi = horzcat( bbox( i,1 ), bbox( i,1 ), bbox( i,1) + bbox( i,3 ), bbox( i,1 ) + bbox( i,3 ) );

yi = horzcat( bbox( i,2 ), bbox( i,2 ) + bbox( i,4 ), bbox( i,2 ) + bbox( i,4 ), bbox( i,2 ) );

bw = poly2mask( xi, yi, B(1), B(2));

blurredMask = imfilter(im2double(bw),kernel,'same');

txtimg = im2uint8(im2double(blurredImage).*blurredMask + im2double(txtimg).*(1-blurredMask));

end

imshow(txtimg);

Cassandra Adela 2022-1-26

@Image Analyst hello sir, can you please help me to answer my question? i'll send you a link I am confused about my code, can you guys please help me to tell me what SVM did I use? - (mathworks.com)

Johndel Chan 2022-1-26

@DGM Thanks for the help and I really appreciate the explanation you gave for each solution that you provided! The script now works on my end too. Being partly new to image processing, it seems like I have a lot more to learn about it.

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