A formal model for document processing of business forms

We present a formal model for processing gray-scale images of business forms such as bank cheques. The formal model is based on a new hybrid-based approach namely the base lines. In fact, to segment handwritten and hand-printed data from bank cheques, knowledge rules and base lines will have important roles to segment and extract the information from bank cheques. The architectural design as well as the major components of the system is discussed in full detail. Moreover, the significant use of the morphological followed by the topological processing on gray-scale images is used as a major aspect to restore the lost information after the elimination of the background and the base lines from the gray-scale cheques.