Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition using Regional Zone with Structural Features

  • Authors

    • Ajay James Government Engineering College, Thrissur
    • Raveena P V Government Engineering College, Thrissur
    • Chandran Saravanan NIT Durgapur
    2018-11-11
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.12551

  • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tries to extract features from an image of script and converts to machine-readable code. OCR comprises of Line segmentation, Word segmentation, Character segmentation and Character Recognition. Printed documents are efficiently converted to the editable text format with 100% accuracy. Handwritten character recognition places difficulties in identifying and translating scripts because of the wide variation in human handwriting. Writing style including line spacing, word spacing, character sizes and shape of each character varies from person to person. Feature extraction and character recognition are different for different languages and become the most complicated task among the phases of OCR. By language characteristics, feature extraction can differ for each language. The Malayalam characters are characterized by their curved and noncursive nature. The handwritten character recognition for the Malayalam language that proposed here uses a regional zone based method with structural feature extraction.

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    James, A., P V, R., & Saravanan, C. (2018). Handwritten Malayalam Character Recognition using Regional Zone with Structural Features. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 7(4), 4629-4636. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.12551