Gujarati handwritten Character Recognition Using Neural Network

ABSTRACT

During the last so many years, Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) has most often been
investigated under the framework of Character Recognition (OCR) and Pattern Recognition.
HCR is more considered as a perceptual and interpretation task closely connected with research
into Human Language. India is a country which uses many languages in the different parts of the
country be it for personal use or use of business.

In this study we propose a novel solution for performing character recognition in Gujarati, the
official language of Gujarat. Pursued by the preprocessing techniques, we suggest a method
called Pattern Matching where a character is identified by analyzing its shape and comparing its
features that distinguish each character. Various handwritten characters from forms or peripheral
devices etc. are recognized with the help of various pre-processing and image enhancement
techniques. These characters are further more specifically recognized by Pattern matching using
Neural Network.