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Article:A Review of Research on Devnagari Character Recognition

by Vikas J Dongre, Vijay H Mankar
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 12 - Number 2
Year of Publication: 2010
Authors: Vikas J Dongre, Vijay H Mankar
10.5120/1653-2224

Vikas J Dongre, Vijay H Mankar . Article:A Review of Research on Devnagari Character Recognition. International Journal of Computer Applications. 12, 2 ( December 2010), 8-15. DOI=10.5120/1653-2224

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title = { Article:A Review of Research on Devnagari Character Recognition },
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Abstract

English Character Recognition (CR) has been extensively studied in the last half century and progressed to a level, sufficient to produce technology driven applications. But same is not the case for Indian languages which are complicated in terms of structure and computations. Rapidly growing computational power may enable the implementation of Indic CR methodologies. Digital document processing is gaining popularity for application to office and library automation, bank and postal services, publishing houses and communication technology. Devnagari being the national language of India, spoken by more than 500 million people, should be given special attention so that document retrieval and analysis of rich ancient and modern Indian literature can be effectively done. This article is intended to serve as a guide and update for the readers, working in the Devnagari Optical Character Recognition (DOCR) area. An overview of DOCR systems is presented and the available DOCR techniques are reviewed. The current status of DOCR is discussed and directions for future research are suggested.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Devnagari Character Recognition Off-line Handwriting Recognition Segmentation Feature Extraction Image Classification

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