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This paper describes the normalisation and preprocessing operations which have been implemented as the preprocessing stages of a complete off-line handwriting recognition system based on recurrent networks. These operations remove shears, rotations and scaling from words, and estimate the position of the important base-lines. The paper also describes the methods used to encode the data and to determine the presence of writing features which are of benefit in the recognition processes.
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Senior, A.W. (1994). Normalisation and Preprocessing for a Recurrent Network Off-line Handwriting Recognition System. In: Impedovo, S. (eds) Fundamentals in Handwriting Recognition. NATO ASI Series, vol 124. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78646-4_22
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