Abstract:Core region detection of handwritten cursive words is an important step towards their automatic recognition. Several preprocessing operations such as height normalization, slant estimation etc. are often based on this core region. This is particularly useful for word recognition of major Indian scripts, which have large character sets. The main parts of majority of these characters belong to the core region that is bounded above by a headline and bounded below by an imaginary base line. Only a few such charact… Show more
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