A method for extracting key contour points of
Chinese characters based on key skeleton points and
stroke width belongs to the field of computer and Chinese character vectorization, which comprises the following steps: inputting a single Chinese character picture, performing pretreatment to generate a
binary image; extracting the skeleton of the Chinese character by using a skeleton
extraction algorithm; further extracting key skeleton points of the Chinese character; obtaining the
stroke width at each key skeleton point of the Chinese character; obtaining the contour points of the Chinese character by using a contour
extraction algorithm; sequentially traversing all contour points of the Chinese character, calculating the distance from the current contour point to the nearest key skeleton point, calculating the
distance threshold of the current nearest key skeleton point, judging whether the current contour point is a key contour point by comparing the distance from the current contour point to the nearest key skeleton point with the
distance threshold, and recording the current contour point as a key contour point if the distance is less than the
distance threshold. The application effectively improves the quality of Chinese character vectorization, maintains all detail features, effectively removes
noise contour points and redundant contour points, and reduces the storage space size of the vectorized
Chinese characters.