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Text Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents using Clustering Method based on Thresholding Approach

Published on August 2012 by M. Ravi Kumar, Nayana N Shetty, B. P. Pragath
National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications 2012
Foundation of Computer Science USA
NCACC - Number 1
August 2012
Authors: M. Ravi Kumar, Nayana N Shetty, B. P. Pragath
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M. Ravi Kumar, Nayana N Shetty, B. P. Pragath . Text Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents using Clustering Method based on Thresholding Approach. National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications 2012. NCACC, 1 (August 2012), 9-12.

@article{
author = { M. Ravi Kumar, Nayana N Shetty, B. P. Pragath },
title = { Text Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents using Clustering Method based on Thresholding Approach },
journal = { National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications 2012 },
issue_date = { August 2012 },
volume = { NCACC },
number = { 1 },
month = { August },
year = { 2012 },
issn = 0975-8887,
pages = { 9-12 },
numpages = 4,
url = { /proceedings/ncacc/number1/7989-1005/ },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
}
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%1 National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications 2012
%A M. Ravi Kumar
%A Nayana N Shetty
%A B. P. Pragath
%T Text Line Segmentation of Handwritten Documents using Clustering Method based on Thresholding Approach
%J National Conference on Advanced Computing and Communications 2012
%@ 0975-8887
%V NCACC
%N 1
%P 9-12
%D 2012
%I International Journal of Computer Applications
Abstract

Segmentation of the text lines in an un-constrained handwritten documents still a challenging task because handwritten text lines are often un-uniformly skewed and curved, and the space between lines is not obvious. In this paper, we propose a text-line segmentation algorithm based on clustering using threshold. The connected components of document image are grouped, from which text-lines are extracted dynamically by coloring all the text-lines.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Handwritten Document Segmentation Bounding Box Threshold Clustering