Abstract：To segment machineprinted English characters of small font is a challenging problems. It is difficult to segment small font characters because of their small energies and the overlap by letters. In this paper, many kinds of overlaps caused by the serifs of letters are analyzed, and an algorithm to remove the serifs is proposed. Consequently, a method to segment machineprinted English characters of small fonts is designed. Experiments give encouraging segmentation results for not only small font characters but also large font characters.
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