Morphology is the study of external features of an object. In image processing we use the morphological features based on the shape of the object, from this a template is created and used for matching purpose. We have applied this approach for the problem of handwritten signature recognition. The static signature recognition is simple and cost effective and as large number of commercial transactions are still done on paper, handwritten signatures are widely used for authorization of the documents. Hence the static signature recognition is an important aspect of document authorization using...