A12 - Preprocessing Text

Just some random thoughts... One of the very first things we learned when we started going to school was to write. Writing is a representation of a language through the use of a set of symbols (in our case, alphabet). Before computers became popular, most people hand-write texts, letters, etc.; and the nature of the hand-written text is unique for each individual.

With this concept, how do people understand other people's handwritten text especially if it's too "ugly"?
--> I guess it's our innate ability to read words not letter by letter but by the first and last letters only and decipher the exact word instantly.

In relation to the handwritten text I was talking about above, I'll show in this blog post how to extract handwritten text from an imaged document with lines.