Handwritten text localization in skewed documents

نویسندگان

  • Ergina Kavallieratou
  • Doru-Cristian Balcan
  • Maria-Florina Balcan
  • Nikos Fakotakis
چکیده

In this paper a system for handwritten text localization in document images is proposed. Our system performs skew angle correction using Wigner-Ville distribution and localizes the handwritten areas of the document based on several measures concerning regularity in shape (selfcorrelation, horizontal and vertical symmetry) and in dimensions (aspect ratio, distribution of heights and widths). The proposed technique was tested on a variety of documents and handled successfully more than 88% of the set while the misclassified areas in the rest documents didn’t exceed the six in no document.

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تاریخ انتشار 2001