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Offline Recognition of Handwritten Urdu Characters using B Spline Curves: A Survey

by Mohd Jameel, Sanjay Kumar
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International Journal of Computer Applications
Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Volume 157 - Number 1
Year of Publication: 2017
Authors: Mohd Jameel, Sanjay Kumar
10.5120/ijca2017912604

Mohd Jameel, Sanjay Kumar . Offline Recognition of Handwritten Urdu Characters using B Spline Curves: A Survey. International Journal of Computer Applications. 157, 1 ( Jan 2017), 28-34. DOI=10.5120/ijca2017912604

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author = { Mohd Jameel, Sanjay Kumar },
title = { Offline Recognition of Handwritten Urdu Characters using B Spline Curves: A Survey },
journal = { International Journal of Computer Applications },
issue_date = { Jan 2017 },
volume = { 157 },
number = { 1 },
month = { Jan },
year = { 2017 },
issn = { 0975-8887 },
pages = { 28-34 },
numpages = {9},
url = { https://ijcaonline.org/archives/volume157/number1/26797-2016912604/ },
doi = { 10.5120/ijca2017912604 },
publisher = {Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA},
address = {New York, USA}
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%A Sanjay Kumar
%T Offline Recognition of Handwritten Urdu Characters using B Spline Curves: A Survey
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%P 28-34
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%I Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA
Abstract

Handwritten Character Recognition is an active area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing for last two decades as there is an urgent need of having a successful Script Recognition System to convert handwritten documents into computer understandable form which is applicable for various purposes. Several research studies have been carried out for recognition of other scripts like Chinese, Japanese, English, Devanagari, etc. but the research regarding Urdu Script is still immature due to cursive and variable nature of Urdu characters. The requirement of offline Urdu HCR systems is increasing because of the expansion of technology and the convenience for users. In this paper, a detailed survey of Urdu HCR techniques with respect to feature extraction developed so far alongwith their efficiency and accuracy has been presented. The paper also presents a new proposed B-Spline Curve approximation approach for feature extraction of offline isolated Urdu handwritten characters.

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Computer Science
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Keywords

Handwritten Urdu Character Recognition B-Spline curve Offline

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