A novel approach to separate handwritten connected digits

This paper presents a novel approach to separate connected digits in handwritten numerals by employing two agents in the process. The first agent decides on candidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center of the deepest top-valley, if any. The second agent argues candidate cut-point as the closest feature-point to the center of the highest bottom-hill; if any. Then the actual cut-point is decided by negotiation, which is influenced by a degree of confidence in each candidate cut-point. Experiments conducted so far are promising and successful as well as justified employing multiple agents. The obtained results are very encouraging with a success factor of 97.8%.