An automated approach to remove line from text bypassing restoration stage

• Main Authors: Mohamad, Dzulkifli, Khan, Amjad Rehman, Kurniawan, Fajri
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 2009
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/12965/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IC4.2009.4909214

In composite document image, handwritten and printed text is often found to be overlapped with printed lines. The problem becomes critical for obscure and broken lines at multiple positions. Consequently, line removal is unavoidable pre-processing stage in the development of robust object recognizer...