Handwritten and machine-printed text discrimination using a template matching approach

Mehryar Emambakhsh, Yulan He, Ian Nabney

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Abstract

We propose a novel template matching approach for the discrimination of handwritten and machine-printed text. We first pre-process the scanned document images by performing denoising, circles/lines exclusion and word-block level segmentation. We then align and match characters in a flexible sized gallery with the segmented regions, using parallelised normalised cross-correlation. The experimental results over the Pattern Recognition & Image Analysis Research Lab-Natural History Museum (PRImA-NHM) dataset show remarkably high robustness of the algorithm in classifying cluttered, occluded and noisy samples, in addition to those with significant high missing data. The algorithm, which gives 84.0% classification rate with false positive rate 0.16 over the dataset, does not require training samples and generates compelling results as opposed to the training-based approaches, which have used the same benchmark.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings : 12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2016
PublisherIEEE
Pages399-404
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)978-1-5090-1792-8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 13 Jun 2016
Event12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems - Santorini, Greece
Duration: 11 Apr 201614 Apr 2016

Workshop

Workshop12th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems
Abbreviated titleDAS 2016
Country/TerritoryGreece
CitySantorini
Period11/04/1614/04/16

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Keywords

  • classification
  • handwritten
  • machine-printed
  • OCR
  • shape analysis
  • template matching

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