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Script identification is an emerging document analysis problem where we identify scripts type from multilingual documents. It is well known that there are 22 official languages in India and 11 scripts are used to write them. Traditional approaches for script identification consider all the scripts together and perform a classification at single level in brute force manner. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-level approach that separate 11 different scripts (Bangla, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Roman, Tamil, Telugu & Urdu) from multi-script documents. A three-level hierarchy is followed during the grouping of different Indic scripts based on their structural similarities. The proposed approach not only performs well in terms of classification accuracy but also it shows more realistic way to separate multiple numbers of Indic scripts. We obtain an average script identification accuracy of 94.43% at individual script-level which is the encouraging observation of the current inherent complex problem.
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Ghosh, S. et al. (2019). Handwritten Indic Script Identification – A Multi-level Approach. In: Mandal, J., Mukhopadhyay, S., Dutta, P., Dasgupta, K. (eds) Computational Intelligence, Communications, and Business Analytics. CICBA 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1031. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8581-0_9
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