Abstract—Graphic objects generally occupy a good portion of
any well written document. This is especially true for magazines
articles and also for research documents. These objects also
consume a lot of ink while printing, and would amount for large
percentage of ink usage in general as compared to text printing.
The goal of this paper is to smartly detect the regions of graphic
objects and/or regions where lot of ink would be used while
printing. These objects could then be selectively masked out while
printing, and given as an option while printing is selected.
Alternatively a low resolution of the same image can then be
embedded into that region for completeness. The contribution of
this paper is this novel idea of reduced ‘ink’ printing and two
simple approaches to robustly and efficiently detect the graphic
objects. We have tested the proposed approaches on few sample
test document pages from IEEE magazine. Our results are very
promising. This technique and also could lead to Eco-friendly
printing solutions if adopted.