Experiments with applying slant counteraction to script recognition

Many people’s handwriting exhibits various writing slant. This is one of factors greatly varying human handwriting and thus making it more difficult to recognize. This report describes experiments with slant counteraction. The writing slant is estimated on a per word basis and the way the handwriting data is “seen” by the recognizer is transformed in order to counteract the slant. This leaves the original data intact and nevertheless allows to perceive it as if it had been de-slanted. Experiments are performed with various transformations of the view of the data and the results reported. The Nottingham Trent University Department of Computing Burton Street Nottingham NG1 4BU Tel: +44 (0)602 418418 ext. 2853 Fax: +44 (0)602 486 518 Email: [email protected] Department of Computing The Nottingham Trent University