Chavan S.v.1*, Kale K.v.2, Kazi M.m.2 and Rode Y.s.2

Handwritten character recognition is the important area in image processing and pattern recognition fields. This field of research is applicable to various application areas where the aim is too atomized and reduces the human efforts for form filling, job application, bank and postal automation [1-3] etc. Handwritten character recognition in Indian script [4] is a challenging task specially Devanagari, for several reason like complex structure of character with their modifiers and present of compound character. Compound character are those where two or more character are joined together to produce a special character. These characters are such type in which one half of character is connected to full character. Thus there are large variations in shape of character as writing style, pen quality (thick/thin), strokes that substantial extent the recognition accuracy. Writing style in Devanagari script is from left to right. The concept of upper/lower case is absent in Devanagari script. In Devanagari script a vowel following a consonant takes a modified shape. Depending on the vowel, its modified shape is placed at the left, right (or both) or bottom of the consonant. These modified shapes are called modified characters. A consonant or vowel following a consonant sometimes takes a compound orthographic shape, which we call as compound character.