In India, more than 300 million people use Devanagari script for documentation. There has
been a significant improvement in the research related to the recognition of printed as well …

Handwritten character recognition is currently getting the attention of researchers because of
possible applications in assisting technology for blind and visually impaired users, human …

Abstract Despite many advances, Handwritten Devanagari Character Recognition (HDCR)
remains unsolved due to the presence of complex characters. For HDCR, the traditional …

The character recognition system is a vital area in the field of pattern recognition. One
interesting, complex, and challenging task is handwritten character recognition because of …

The character recognition technique is based on electronic or mechanical transformation of
handwritten or printed document images into machine interpretable form. The machine …

The Devanagari script originated from the ancient Brahmi script and is a widely used Indic
script for writing different languages, like Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, and Konkani …

Compound character recognition of Devanagari script is one of the challenging tasks since
the characters are complex in structure and can be modified by writing combination of two or …

In this research work, we have proposed a segmentation technique for words and characters
of Devanagari offline handwritten scripts. Due to complex structures and high unevenness in …

The handwriting style of every writer consists of variations, skewness and slanting nature
and therefore, it is a stimulating task to recognise these handwritten documents. This article …

Character recognition systems for various languages and script has gain importance in
recent decades and is the area of deep interest for many researchers. Their development is …