In this paper, a new method is presented to extract both superimposed and embedded scene texts in digital news videos. The
algorithm is summarized in the following three steps : preprocessing, extracting candidate regions, and filtering candidate
regions. For the first preprocessing step, a color image is converted into a gray-level image and a modified local adaptive
thresholding is applied to the contrast-stretched image. In the second step, various morphological operations and Geo-correction
method are applied to remove non-text components while retaining the text components. In the third filtering step, non-text
components are removed based on the characteristics of each candidate component such as the number of pixels and the bounding
box of each connected component Acceptable results have been obtained using the proposed method on 300 domestic news images
with a recognition rate of 93.6%. Also, the proposed method gives good performance on the various kinds of images such as
foreign news and film videos.