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Bangla Character Recognition for Android Devices

by Aparajita Chowdhury, Abu Foysal, Shafiqul Islam
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 136 - Number 11
Year of Publication: 2016
Authors: Aparajita Chowdhury, Abu Foysal, Shafiqul Islam
10.5120/ijca2016908566

Aparajita Chowdhury, Abu Foysal, Shafiqul Islam . Bangla Character Recognition for Android Devices. International Journal of Computer Applications. 136, 11 ( February 2016), 13-19. DOI=10.5120/ijca2016908566

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author = { Aparajita Chowdhury, Abu Foysal, Shafiqul Islam },
title = { Bangla Character Recognition for Android Devices },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { February 2016 },
volume = { 136 },
number = { 11 },
month = { February },
year = { 2016 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 13-19 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume136/number11/24197-2016908566/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2016908566 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

The main target of the project was to build an Android application that can extract text from any image that contains Bengali characters and convert it into an editable document. There were a few limitations in existing systems which could be improved further. To recognize more characters and joint letters, it was decided to work on decreasing the rate of error to preserve more texts. Tesseract (v3.03) was used to recognize the characters which utilizes Leptonica Image Processing library to process image and extracting data from the image. Joint letters, dangerous ambiguity and contrast issues were handled to increase efficiency. A record of the analyzed data and overall progress were kept for future scopes of improvement.

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Index Terms

Computer Science
Information Sciences

Keywords

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Bangla language Android Tesseract Leptonica.

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