A NATURAL LEARNING ALGORITHM BASED ON HOUGH TRANSFORM FOR TEXT LINES EXTRACTION IN HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS

A text lines extraction algorithm based on Hough Transform for unconstrained handwritten documents is proposed. A natural learning method which is similar to the learning procedure of human being is used in this algorithm. First some general informations have been obtained by applying Hough Transform. Then natural learning is used during the clustering. The algorithm gets more information step by step by natural learning until the final segmentation result is reached.