Slant correction for handwritten English documents

Malayappan Shridhar; Fumitaka Kimura; Yimei Ding; John W. V. Miller

doi:10.1117/12.580524

16 December 2004 Slant correction for handwritten English documents

Malayappan Shridhar, Fumitaka Kimura, Yimei Ding, John W. V. Miller

Proceedings Volume 5606, Two- and Three-Dimensional Vision Systems for Inspection, Control, and Metrology II; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580524
Event: Optics East, 2004, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Abstract

Optical character recognition of machine-printed documents is an effective means for extracting textural material. While the level of effectiveness for handwritten documents is much poorer, progress is being made in more constrained applications such as personal checks and postal addresses. In these applications a series of steps is performed for recognition beginning with removal of skew and slant. Slant is a characteristic unique to the writer and varies from writer to writer in which characters are tilted some amount from vertical. The second attribute is the skew that arises from the inability of the writer to write on a horizontal line. Several methods have been proposed and discussed for average slant estimation and correction in the earlier papers. However, analysis of many handwritten documents reveals that slant is a local property and slant varies even within a word. The use of an average slant for the entire word often results in overestimation or underestimation of the local slant. This paper describes three methods for local slant estimation, namely the simple iterative method, high-speed iterative method, and the 8-directional chain code method. The experimental results show that the proposed methods can estimate and correct local slant more effectively than the average slant correction.

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Malayappan Shridhar, Fumitaka Kimura, Yimei Ding, and John W. V. Miller "Slant correction for handwritten English documents", Proc. SPIE 5606, Two- and Three-Dimensional Vision Systems for Inspection, Control, and Metrology II, (16 December 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.580524

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