Geometrical Features Based Approach for the Classification and Recognition of Handwritten Characters

A novel hierarchical approach is presented here for optical character recognition (OCR) of handwritten Bangla words. Instead of dealing with isolated characters as found in selected works [T.K. Bhowmik, U. Bhattacharya, S.K. Parui, Recognition of Bangla ...

Arabic characters are always in cursive script. Handwritten words were entered into an IBM PC via a graphics tablet and a segmentation process applied to the points; the length and the slope of each segment was then found, and the slope categorized into ...

Devnagari script is a major script of India widely used for various languages. In this work, we propose a fuzzy stroke-based technique for analyzing handwritten Devnagari characters. After preprocessing, the character is segmented in strokes using our ...