Fragmentation of Handwritten Touching Characters in Devanagari Script
Shuchi Kapoor, Vivek Kumar Verma · International Journal of Information Technology Modeling and Computing · 2014
Character Segmentation of handwritten words is a difficult task because of different writing styles and complex structural features.Segmentation of handwritten text in Devanagari script is an uphill task.The occurrence of header line, overlapped characters in middle zone & half characters make the segmentation process more difficultt.Sometimes, interline space and noise makes line fragmentation a difficult task.Sometimes, interline space and noise makes line fragmentation a difficult task.Without separating the touching characters, it will be difficult to identify the characters, hence fragmentation is necessary of the touching characters in a word.So, we devised a technique, according to that first step will be preprocessing of a word, than identify the joint points, form the bounding boxes around all vertical & horizontal lines and finally fragment the touching characters on the basis of their height and width.