Tri-level handwritten text segmentation techniques for Gujarati language

Bhargav Rajyagor; Rajnish Rakholia

doi:10.17485/IJST/v14i7.2146

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Tri-level handwritten text segmentation techniques for Gujarati language

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/IJST/v14i7.2146

Year: 2021, Volume: 14, Issue: 7, Pages: 618-627

Original Article

Tri-level handwritten text segmentation techniques for Gujarati language

Bhargav Rajyagor^1*, Rajnish Rakholia²

¹Gujarat Technological University, Gujarat, India
²S. S. Agrawal Institute of Management and Technology, Navsari, Gujarat, India

*Corresponding Author
Email: [email protected]

Received Date:20 November 2020, Accepted Date:27 February 2021, Published Date:03 March 2021

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

Objectives: To improve the efficiency of tri-level segmentation tasks for handwritten Gujarati text. Methods: Using hybrid methods for tri-level segmentation, we have used line, word and character segmentation from the image. This study presents a segmentation paradigm that works with touching characters, slop of the line written on the page, character overlapping, etc. It evaluated on the dataset of 500+ images created by us on different writing sentences by different people. We have used the Horizontal projection technique for line segmentation, Scale-space technique for word segmentation and the Vertical projection technique for character segmentation. Findings: The experimental results show that the proposed method is more efficient for handwritten Gujarati text with diacritics. We have obtained the accuracy for character level segmentation is 82%, word-level is 90% and for the line-level segmentation is 87%. Novelty: We have designed a methodology to segment Gujarati handwritten text with diacritics at all three levels including characters, words and lines. Applications: We have proposed tri-level segmentation which is pre-processing task that can be used in any character recognition systems i.e. OCR.

Keywords: Deep learning; trilevel segmentation; handwritten Gujarati text

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