Neural Network Based Approach for Recognition for Devanagiri Characters

The development of a Character recognition system for Devnagri is difficult because (i) there are about 350 basic, modified (“matra”) and compound character shapes in the script and (ii) the characters in a words are topologically connected. Here focus is on the recognition of offline handwritten Hindi characters that can be used in common applications like bank cheques, commercial forms, government records, bill processing systems, Postcode Recognition, Signature Verification, passport readers, offline document recognition generated by the expanding technological society. Challenges in handwritten characters recognition lie in the variation and distortion of offline handwritten An approach using Artificial Neural Network is considered for recognition of Handwritten Hindi Character Recognition.