Segmentation of lines and words in handwritten Gurmukhi script documents
Munish Kumar, Rajiv Kumar Sharma, M. K. Jindal · 2010
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an essential part of Document Analysis System. Among few phases of an OCR system, segmentation is an important phase. After preprocessing phase, it is necessary to segment the text into lines, words and characters before the recognition of text. Segmentation is one of the most important and challenging tasks in a handwritten recognition system. Gurmukhi script can be segmented into paragraphs, lines, words and characters. This paper describes a technique for segmentation of handwritten Gurmukhi script documents into lines with the use of strip based projection profile technique, and to segment lines into words using white space and pitch method.