This paper presents a review of script identification on offline handwritten documents. Here we present the challenges involved in script identification, the applications of script identification, different methods used for extracting the features in different scripts and also the classifiers used for classification. Since, script identification plays an important role in analyzing the offline handwritten documents. we presented a brief overview and analysis of the existing methods.

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