Handwritten Character Recognition In Malayalam Scripts- A Review
It addresses the challenge of character recognition for Malayalam, a South Indian language, but is incremental as it only surveys prior work.
This paper reviews existing research on handwritten character recognition for Malayalam scripts, highlighting the complexity due to large character sets and compound characters, but does not present new results or numbers.
Handwritten character recognition is one of the most challenging and ongoing areas of research in the field of pattern recognition. HCR research is matured for foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese but the problem is much more complex for Indian languages. The problem becomes even more complicated for South Indian languages due to its large character set and the presence of vowels modifiers and compound characters. This paper provides an overview of important contributions and advances in offline as well as online handwritten character recognition of Malayalam scripts.