Off-line Recognition of Cursive Handwritten Czech Text
by Pavel Smrz, Stepan Hrbacek and Michal Martinasek

Abstract:

In this paper a part of the system for recognising off-line
cursive Czech text is presented. Recently, various systems
for recognition of cursive English text have been developed,
however, to our knowledge no method has been presented yet
for Czech, a language rich in diacritic marks. This paper
deals with preprocessing which is different for Czech and
English handwritten texts. For finding the letter
boundaries a method based on minimising a heuristic cost
function has been used.