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Detecting text lines in handwritten documents

  • University of Maryland, College Park

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Abstract

Although detecting text lines in machine printed documents is typically considered a solved problem, it is still a challenge to segment handwritten text lines in the general sense given no prior knowledge of script. This paper models text line detection as an image segmentation problem by enhancing text line structures using a Gaussian window and adopting the level set method to evolve text line boundaries. Experiments show that the method, which is script independent, achieves high accuracy for detecting text lines in heterogeneous handwritten documents.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006
Pages1030-1033
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: Aug 20 2006Aug 24 2006

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1051-4651

Conference

Conference18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period08/20/0608/24/06

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