Learning-Free Text Line Segmentation for Historical Handwritten Documents

We present a learning-free method for text line segmentation of historical handwritten document images. This method relies on automatic scale selection together with second derivative of anisotropic Gaussian filters to detect the blob lines that strike through the text lines. Detected blob lines gui...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Berat Kurar Barakat, Rafi Cohen, Ahmad Droby, Irina Rabaev, Jihad El-Sana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2020-11-01
Series:Applied Sciences
Subjects:
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/10/22/8276