Offline Handwritten Devanagari Numeral Recognition Using Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

Machine recognition of handwriting has been improving from last decay. The task of machine learning and recognition which also include reading handwriting is closely resembling human performance is still an open problem and also the central issue of an active field of research. Many researchers are working for fully automating the process of reading, understanding and interpretation of handwritten character. This research work proposes new approaches for extracting features in context of Handwritten Marathi numeral recognition. For classification technique Artificial Network is used. The overall accuracy of recognition of handwritten Devanagari numerals is 99.67% with SVM classifier, 99% with MLP and it is 98.13with GFF.