Robust method for the text line detection and splitting of overlapping text in the Latin manuscripts

Jakub Pach; Piotr Bilski

doi:10.22630/MGV.2014.23.3.2

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Dec 14, 2014

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Vol. 23 No. 3/4 (2014)

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Jakub Pach

Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3483-4340

Piotr Bilski

Institute of Radioelectronics, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5463-9411

DOI: https://doi.org/10.22630/MGV.2014.23.3.2

Keywords : document analysis, unconstrained handwriting, Hough transform, text line detection, connected component analysis, histogram analysis

Abstract

The paper presents the modified method of the text lines separation in the handwritten manuscripts. Such an approach is required for the medieval text analysis, where multiple text lines overlap and are written at different angles. The proposed approach consists in dividing the bounding boxes into smaller components based on the points of the character curves intersection. The method considers the askew text lines, producing non-rectangular zones between the neighboring lines.

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Pach, J., & Bilski, P. (2014). Robust method for the text line detection and splitting of overlapping text in the Latin manuscripts. Machine Graphics and Vision, 23(3/4), 11–22. https://doi.org/10.22630/MGV.2014.23.3.2

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