Camera captured text embedded image processing on handheld mobile devices is an emerging research area. The present work deals with the associated problems of this domain. In this context, images are acquired with built-in digital cameras of various handheld devices such as cell-phones, iPhones, iPods, smart phones, PDAs, etc. As a result, acquired images are often geometrically distorted, unevenly illuminated and blurred. Moreover, acquired images are often heterogeneous and complex in nature, and image information is lost due to image compression while saving the image. This work attempts...