Equation 1 above defines a ratio between a radius of a maximum circle enclosing the region and a maximum circle that can be contained in the region.
In some aspects, if the irregularity of the features in the linear set of features is above a threshold, the disclosed embodiments may determine that the linear set or group of features is likely enough to be handwriting, that additional analysis may be applied to the linear set of features. In some aspects, a probability that the linear features represent handwriting is based, at least in part, on a measurement of the irregularity of the features, such as via Equation 1 above.