AI RESEARCH
Handwriting Extraction and Analysis of Signature Lists in Swiss Popular Initiatives
arXiv CS.CV
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ArXi:2606.05018v1 Announce Type: new Popular initiatives and referendums are central to Swiss cracy, yet the validation of handwritten signature lists remains a labor-intensive manual process. This paper investigates the potential of automated document analysis methods, including OCR and AI-based handwriting analysis, to this task. We propose a pipeline combining template-based line segmentation with text recognition and writer retrieval techniques, evaluated on a dataset of 443 handwritten entries from 418 writers.