A Comparative Analysis on Nastaliq Style Urdu Character Recognition

Abstract

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has emerged as an interesting research field. Lot of work has been declared in Urdu script based on various approaches and diverse methodologies have been put forward on Nastaliq font style to get the desired output. The paper presents a survey on different techniques of OCR and ends up with the comparative analysis of Urdu character recognition based on accuracy and other performance parameters. This exploration directly implies that the nonpresence of Urdu OCR has restricted the idea on advanced Urdu library and thus, drives a pathway for enormous research in this field.