“…Segmentation of handwritten document images that involves extraction of text‐lines, words and characters has been a challenging problem since several decades [1], addressing research problems of optical character recognition (OCR) [2], forensic analysis [3], signature analysis [4], writer identification [5], word spotting [6] and document retrieval [7]. Handwritten documents have varied spacing, touching, and overlapping connected components, and therefore several text‐line segmentation algorithms have been proposed in the literature [8, 9].…”