Text line detection in handwritten documents

Adaptive degraded document image binarization

Basilis Gatos, Ioannis Pratikakis, Stavros Perantonis · Pattern Recognition · 2005 · 580 citations

Engineering, Image Analysis, Pattern Recognition +5

A robust algorithm for text string separation from mixed text/graphics images

Lloyd Alan Fletcher, Rangachar Kasturi · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1988 · 566 citations

Image Analysis, Engineering, Optical Character Recognition +12

A linear-time component-labeling algorithm using contour tracing technique

Fu Chang, Chun‐Jen Chen, Chi-Jen Lu · Computer Vision and Image Understanding · 2003 · 553 citations

Machine Vision, Image Analysis, Contour Tracing Technique +9

ICDAR 2013 Handwriting Segmentation Contest

Nikolaos Stamatopoulos, Basilis Gatos, Georgios Louloudis et al. · 2013 · 228 citations

Engineering, Machine Learning, Handwriting +18

A scale space approach for automatically segmenting words from historical handwritten documents

R. Manmatha, Jamie L. Rothfeder · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2005 · 192 citations