IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Automated forms-processing software and services
IBM Journal of Research and Development
A New Methodology for Gray-Scale Character Segmentation and Recognition
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
A Lexicon Driven Approach to Handwritten Word Recognition for Real-Time Applications
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
An Off-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition System
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
ICDAR '97 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A2iA Check Reader: A Family of Bank Check Recognition Systems
ICDAR '99 Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
A System for Cursive Handwritten Address Recognition
ICPR '98 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Pattern Recognition-Volume 2 - Volume 2
Curvelet-Based Multi SVM Recognizer for Offline Handwritten Bangla: A Major Indian Script
ICDAR '07 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 01
Handwritten Numeral Databases of Indian Scripts and Multistage Recognition of Mixed Numerals
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Text line and word segmentation of handwritten documents
Pattern Recognition
Handwritten Text Line Identification in Indian Scripts
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
New Algorithm of Straight or Curved Baseline Detection for Short Arabic Handwritten Writing
ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Construction of isothetic covers of a digital object: A combinatorial approach
Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation
Word Segmentation and Baseline Detection in Handwritten Documents Using Isothetic Covers
ICFHR '10 Proceedings of the 2010 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition
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Analysis of handwritten documents is a challenging task in the modern era of document digitization. It requires efficient preprocessing which includes word segmentation and baseline detection. This paper proposes a novel approach toward word segmentation and baseline detection in a handwritten document. It is based on certain structural properties of isothetic covers tightly enclosing the words in a handwritten document. For an appropriate grid size, the isothetic covers successfully segregate the words so that each cover corresponds to a particular word. The grid size is selected by an adaptive technique that classifies the inter-cover distances into two classes in an unsupervised manner. Finally, by using a geometric heuristic with the horizontal chords of these covers, the corresponding baselines are extracted. Owing to its traversal strategy along the word boundaries in a combinatorial manner and usage of limited operations strictly in the integer domain, the method is found to be quite fast, efficient, and robust, as demonstrated by experimental results with datasets of both Bengali and English handwritings.