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Handwritten Mixed-Script Recognition System: A Comprehensive Approach

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Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications

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Most of the researchers around the world focus on developing monolingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. But in a multilingual country like India, it is quite common that a single document page includes text words written in more than one script. Therefore, OCRing such documents need a script identification module as a prerequisite. This paper reports a complete script recognition system for handwritten mixed-script documents. The document pages are first segmented into their corresponding text-lines and words. Then, the script recognition is done at word-level using texture-based features. The present technique is applied on 100 mixed-script document pages written in Bangla or Devanagari text mixed with English words. Encouraging outcomes would motivate more researchers to work on multilingual handwriting recognition domain.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

    Pawan Kumar Singh, Supratim Das, Ram Sarkar & Mita Nasipuri

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Singh, P.K., Das, S., Sarkar, R., Nasipuri, M. (2017). Handwritten Mixed-Script Recognition System: A Comprehensive Approach. In: Satapathy, S., Bhateja, V., Udgata, S., Pattnaik, P. (eds) Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontiers in Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 515. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3153-3_78

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