Mathematical morphology and weighted least squares to correct handwriting baseline skew

Mathematical morphology and weighted least squares to correct handwriting baseline skew

Morita, Marisa E. and Facon, Jacques and Bortolozzi, Flávio and Garnés, Silvio J.A. and Sabourin, Robert

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 1999

Abstract : An approach to correct the baseline handwritten word skew in the image of bank check dates is presented. The main goal of such an approach is to reduce the use of empirical thresholds. The weighted least squares approach is used on the pseudo-convex hull obtained from the mathematical morphology.