Discerning Structure from Freeform Handwritten Notes

  • Authors:
  • Michael Shilman;Zile Wei;Sashi Raghupathy;Patrice Simard;David Jones

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This paper presents an integrated approach to parsingtextual structure in freeform handwritten notes. Text-graphicsclassification and text layout analysis areclassical problems in printed document analysis, but theirregularity in handwriting and content in freeform notesreveals limitations in existing approaches. We advocatean integrated technique that solves the layout analysisand classification problems simultaneously: the problemsare so tightly coupled that it is not possible to solve onewithout the other for real user notes. We tune andevaluate our approach on a large corpus of unscripteduser files and reflect on the difficult recognition scenariosthat we have encountered in practice.