An approach to stroke extraction of handwritten Chinese characters based on thinning
Xiaoqin Zhang · 1999
An improved one - pass parallel thinning algorithm is introduced to overcome the shortags of general thirming algorithm. The skeleton obtained fiom thirining may reflect the structure of original Chinese character in a better way and is suitable for extiacting strokes of Chinese characters. On the basis of thirining, a new method of stroke extraction is proposed. Through tracing the pixel points along the skeleton as well as taking the feature points of the skeleton into account the preliminary stroke segments may be obtained at first. Then the stroke combination process may finally be completed.