Semi-automatic Segmentation & Alignment of Handwritten

Acknowledgements

First of all, I would like to give a big thank you to my supervisor Anders Hast for his support and guidance throughout the project. I would also like to thank my subject reader Ingela Nyström for all her feedback and for being available for questions. I would like to thank my examiner Siv Andersson and the course coordinator Lena Henriksson for their support and guidance during the project. Lastly, I would like to thank the student opponent Linde Brokmar for his valuable feedback.

Some computations were enabled by resources provided by the National Academic In- frastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) at Alvis, C3SE partially funded by the Swedish Research Council through grant agreement no. 2022-06725.

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Supplementary files

Raw data used in the performance experiments can be found HERE.

The GitHub project can be found at the repository: Text_alignment_and_segmentation