A new stroke extraction method of Chinese characters

Stroke extraction of Chinese characters plays an important role in Chinese character information processing such as character recognition, document an alysis, document compression and storage, font automation and so on. By ana lyzing the structure of Chinese characters deeply, this paper developed a n ovel method to extract strokes of Chinese characters directly from the orig inal character pattern image. Two theorems, eight rules and an algorithm fo r stroke extraction of Chinese characters are presented. This method can ov ercome the difficulties encountered in disposing the intersection or connec tion of different strokes, anti can eliminate noises successfully. Our expe riments have shown that this method can extract strokes both accurately and efficiently.