Skew detection n°2 In the previous article, to detect the skew we used a method that works but not for all documents. If the document had different characteristics, such as a larger contrast or a single block of text, the threshold used in the function did not detect lines...

Skew detection n°1 In the previous article, we have started talking about handwriting recognition in the framework of transcribing civil registers. In this paper we discuss some aspects of image preprocessing and page segmentation. Before segmenting a digitized page, we must check and correct its skew, as well as its...