In this paper, a range free skew detection technique for machine printed Gurmukhi documents has been presented. This approach can easily be extended to other Indian language scripts such as Devnagri and Bakngla. Most characters in these scripts have horizontal lines at the top called headlines. The characters forming a word are joined at top by headlines, so that the word appears as one single component with headline. The ratio of pixel density above and below the headline of any word in Gurmukhi
G. S. Lehal, Renu Dhir