Junction Point Elimination based Tamil Handwritten Character Recognition: An Experimental Analysis

Abstract

Optical Character Recognition is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typed, handwritten or printed text into machine-encoded text for online reading and study. In this OCR technique, Tamil handwritten character recognition is one of the most needed and challengeable subjects of research. An encounter between selection and extraction of proper features eliminates the issues faced by the Tamil handwritten recognition. The character and the writers complexities are the major difficulties and challenges faced by this recognition system. Eventually, the character complexity can be overcome by any pre-extraction or selection process, wherein, structured or statistical pre-extraction algorithm can be designed, discovering the essential features, in the case of writer difficulties. The challenges of Tamil handwritten characters are structure over looping; unnecessary character portion; structure discontinuations and so on. The character portions in this research are chosen by implementing a new algorithm called the Junction Point Elimination (JPE) after conscientious analysis done on the existing algorithms like Zoning, Zoning and Junction Point (ZJP) and the Junction Point (JP) based feature pre-extraction process. The novelty behind this work is introducing an algorithm in order to truncate the problem in the existing feature selection and pre-extraction algorithms. Suitable feature extraction and classification algorithm are chosen and applied on the features extracted by JPE to test whether the same can be reached in successful manner. The final analysis and experiments shows that the JPE is better than the others.