An automatic approach for line detection and removal without smash-up characters

• Main Authors: Rehman, Amjad, Kurniawan, Fajri, Saba, Tanzila
• Format: Article
• Published: The Royal Photographic Society 2011
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/28670/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/136821910X12863758415649
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

In composite document image, handwritten and printed text is often found to be overlapped with printed lines. The problem becomes critical for obscure and broken lines at multiple positions. Consequently, line removal is unavoidable pre-processing stage in the development of robust object recogniser...