Text line segmentation of unconstrained handwritten Kannada script
Proceedings of the 2011 International Conference on Communication, Computing & Security
A survey of handwritten document pre-processing techniques and customizing for Indic script
Proceedings of the International Conference & Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
Text line segmentation for gray scale historical document images
Proceedings of the 2011 Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing
Text line extraction for historical document images
Pattern Recognition Letters
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In this paper, we propose a novel technique to segment handwritten document images into text lines by shredding their surface with local minima tracers. Our approach is based on the topological assumption that for each text line, there exists a path from one side of the image to the other that traverses only one text line. We first blur the image and then use tracers to follow the white-most and black-most paths from left to right as well as from right to left in order to shred the image into text line areas. We experimentally tested the proposed methodology and got promising results comparable to state of the art text line segmentation techniques.