Thinning and segmenting handwritten characters by line following. - Claude Chouinard; Réjean Plamondon (Mach. Vis. Appl., 1992)

Validation of preprocessing algorithms: A methodology and its application to the design of a thinning algorithm for handwritten characters. - Réjean Plamondon; Marc Bourdeau; Claude Chouinard; Ching Y. Suen (ICDAR, 1993)