An approach for detecting and cleaning of struck-out handwritten text
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Highlights：
• Approach for struck-out text detection, strike-out stroke identification and deletion.
• Considering strike-outs by linear (horizontal/ slanted), zigzag and wavy strokes.
• Processing of strike-outs at multi-line, multi-word and single word level.
• Deletion of strike-out strokes for manuscript cleaning.
• Database generation of 500 offline handwritten pages containing struck-out texts.
摘要
Highlights•Approach for struck-out text detection, strike-out stroke identification and deletion.•Considering strike-outs by linear (horizontal/ slanted), zigzag and wavy strokes.•Processing of strike-outs at multi-line, multi-word and single word level.•Deletion of strike-out strokes for manuscript cleaning.•Database generation of 500 offline handwritten pages containing struck-out texts.
论文关键词：Crossed-out text,Document cleaning,Handwritten OCR,Inpainting,Strike-out stroke,Struck-out text processing
论文评审过程：Received 18 January 2016, Revised 22 July 2016, Accepted 22 July 2016, Available online 26 July 2016, Version of Record 12 August 2016.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.07.032
