October 21, 2022 Software Open Access

Text-Lines Counter (TLC)

Mohammed, Hussein

The Text-Lines Counter (TLC) v1.0

This software tool has been developed by Dr. Hussein Mohammed as a part of sub-project A05: Similarity Measurement of Visual Patterns in Written Artefacts.

The main goal of this software tool is to detect, count and mark the text lines in images of handwritten manuscripts. This version contains features to detect vertical text-lines and bright text-lines on darker background.

Acknowledgement:

The research and developement for this software was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany´s Excellence Strategy – EXC 2176 ‘Understanding Written Artefacts: Material, Interaction and Transmission in Manuscript Cultures’, project no. 390893796. The research was conducted within the scope of the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC) at Universität Hamburg.

This software tool has been developed in close collaboration with Prof. Dr. Jost Gippert from the CSMC, Hamburg. Furthermore, I would like to thank him for testing the application and validating the results.

Copyrights Notice:

Proper citation of this software is required when it is used to support your research in anyway. This software tool is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License