A fuzzy approach to segment touching characters

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Highlights：

• An original method for segmenting touching characters is proposed.

• The method is based on a 3-input/1-output fuzzy inference system.

• The method is tested on two datasets of printed and handwritten Latin characters.

摘要

•An original method for segmenting touching characters is proposed.•The method is based on a 3-input/1-output fuzzy inference system.•The method is tested on two datasets of printed and handwritten Latin characters.

论文关键词：Characters segmentation,Fuzzy logic,OCR,Touching characters

论文评审过程：Received 10 January 2017, Revised 20 June 2017, Accepted 21 June 2017, Available online 24 June 2017, Version of Record 30 June 2017.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2017.06.034