Many techniques have been developed for page segmentation of printed documents (newspapers, scientific journals, magazines, business letters) produced with modern editing tools [57] [38][14] [39] [2]. The
segmentation of handwritten documents has also been addressed with the segmentation of
address blocks on envelopes and mail pieces [9] [10] [15][48], and for authentication or
recognition purposes [53] [60]. More recently, the development of handwritten text databases
(IAM database, [34]) provides new material for handwritten page segmentation.