In more embodiments, the technique above may additionally and/or alternatively include one or more of: determining a connectedness of each connected component identified in the character map; determining whether each connected component corresponds to a handwritten character, a hand printed character, a...
The solution to the said problem for handwritten documents is more challenging than for printed ones. In this work, a two-stage word searching schema is introduced. In the first stage, all the irrelevant words with respect to a search word are filtered out from the document page image. This...