Separating handwritten text from interfering strokes

TL;DR: By recovering a drawing order of a handwritten script, the temporal information can be recovered from a static 2D image and this method will be used as a bridge from the offline handwriting character recognition problem to the online one.

TL;DR: An attempt is made to present the state of the art in automatic processing of handwritten cheque images and discusses the important results reported so far in preprocessing, extraction, recognition and verification of handwritten fields on bank cheques and highlights the positive directions of research till date.

TL;DR: The evolution of computer front panels and punch tapes and punch cards to teletype interfaces and the keyboards of modern personal computers shows that the problem of a faster man-machine interaction has been a great scientific and technological challenge since the origin of computers.

TL;DR: The technical challenges of performing text/non-text separation are summarized, and offline document images are categorized into different classes according to the nature of the challenges one faces, in an attempt to provide insight into various techniques presented in the literature.