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In this paper an efficient method has been proposed to segment a document of machine printed Tamil sources into text lines. Because of the interfering lines, text line segmentation remain a problem. Standard Horizontal projection method can not segment the lines which are overlapped or touched. But the proposed method uses horizontal projection technique to solve the problem of line overlapping and over segmentation. Experimental results show that 100% accuracy is obtained from the line segmentation process which involves Tamil language document with different sizes and different fonts with line overlapping.
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Kathirvalavakumar, T., Selvi, M.K. (2013). Efficient Touching Text Line Segmentation in Tamil Script Using Horizontal Projection. In: Prasath, R., Kathirvalavakumar, T. (eds) Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8284. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03844-5_29
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