segmenting handwritten text

Hi I am trying to write for svm or NN based hand writing recoginition system, I am running into problem of how to seperated character that are connected together. Any suggestions how to go about it. Thanks

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

See section 23.4 in http://iris.usc.edu/Vision-Notes/bibliography/contentschar.html#OCR,%20Document%20Analysis%20and%20Character%20Recognition%20Systems

Perhaps section 23.4.6.3 might be the most interesting to you.