Segmentation of Touching Hand Written Numerals and Alphabets

Segmentation of touching hand written numerals and alphabets is a difficult task for recognizing individual characters. In this paper, the proposed algorithm is adopted from condego for the segmentation of hand written touching numerals, and is extended to segment the touching hand written English alphabets. The proposed method using Drop-fall algorithm is based on the moving of a marble on either side of the touching characters for selection of the point from where the cutting of the fused components should take place. This method improvers the segmentation accuracy.