A Prolongation-Based Approach for Recognizing Cut Characters

This work has to do with Optical Character Recognition in the context of degraded characters, and more particularly in the context of cut characters. It appears like a complement to a more general problem and investigates a field not often seen in literature. The problem is first divided into two sub-problems: first, modular networks, separating the detection of cut characters and their classification are proposed. Then, the classification part is completed with information coming from the prolongation of cut characters.