Devanagari Character Recognition: A Comprehensive Survey

Abstract

Devnagari Script is used by over 500 million people around the world. The recognition of Devanagari script is complicated when compared to the recognition of other language scripts. Though different strategies have been proposed by the researchers in the past to identify handwritten characters, the recognition of Devanagari script still offers motivating challenges to research community. This paper analyzes many approaches and challenges concerning Devanagari character recognition.

Keywords—neural network; Devanagari recognition.