Год выпуска: 2014 Автор: M. Abdul Rahiman Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 100 ISBN: 9783659521843
Описание
Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is the process of translation of images of typewritten or handwritten text into machine encoded text. Recently Indian Handwritten Character Recognition is getting much more attention and researchers are contributing a lot in this field. But Malayalam, a South Indian language has very less works in this area and needs further attention. This book focuses on an efficient algorithm for recognizing the handwritten Malayalam characters. It consists of basically 15 vowels and 37 consonants. The existence of lot of their combinations and connected characters, the recognition poses a gargantuan challenge in front of us. Malayalam OCR is a complex task owing to the various character scripts available and more importantly the difference in ways in which the characters are written. The method illustrated is tested with different documents written by 508 different persons of various fields. The data selection concentrated to cover almost all categories of...