Down to the bone

摘要: This paper is about off-line handwritten text comparison of historic documents. The long-term motivation the support palaeographic research, in particular to back up decisions as whether two handwritings can be ascribed same author. In this paper, a first fundamental step presented for extracting relevant structures from texts. Such are represented by skeletons, due their resemblance original writing movements.Core result an approach simplification skeleton structures. While skeletons represent constitutive wide variety subsequent algorithms, algorithms usually focus on pruning branches off instead simplifying whole. By contrast, our reduces amount elements based global error level, reducing skeleton's complexity while keeping its structure close exemplar possible. results much easier analyse information maintained.