AIRCC's International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology

J. Pradeep ¹, E. Srinivasan ¹, S. Himavathi ²

Affiliations
1 Department of ECE, Pondicherry College Engineering, Pondicherry, IN
2 Department of EEE, Pondicherry College Engineering, Pondicherry, IN

Abstract

An off-line handwritten alphabetical character recognition system using multilayer feed forward neural network is described in the paper. A new method, called, diagonal based feature extraction is introduced for extracting the features of the handwritten alphabets. Fifty data sets, each containing 26 alphabets written by various people, are used for training the neural network and 570 different handwritten alphabetical characters are used for testing. The proposed recognition system performs quite well yielding higher levels of recognition accuracy compared to the systems employing the conventional horizontal and vertical methods of feature extraction. This system will be suitable for converting handwritten documents into structural text form and recognizing handwritten names.

Keywords

Handwritten Character Recognition, Image Processing, Feature Extraction, Feed forward Neural Networks.

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