A review on handwritten character and numeral recognition for Roman, Arabic, Chinese and Indian scripts
This is an incremental review paper that consolidates existing knowledge for researchers in the field of handwriting recognition.
The paper reviews research on handwritten character recognition for Roman, Arabic, Chinese, and Indian scripts, summarizing published work from 2005 onward and analyzing methods to build robust systems.
There are a lot of intensive researches on handwritten character recognition (HCR) for almost past four decades. The research has been done on some of popular scripts such as Roman, Arabic, Chinese and Indian. In this paper we present a review on HCR work on the four popular scripts. We have summarized most of the published paper from 2005 to recent and also analyzed the various methods in creating a robust HCR system. We also added some future direction of research on HCR.