Touching character segmentation of Devanagari script

Abstract

Segmentation of characters is one of the major step in OCR system. Devanagari script is a two dimensional form of symbol. It is very inconvenient to treat each form of character as a separate symbol because such combinations are very large in number. Segmentation is a process which separates words into characters. In this paper, we deal with segmentation of offline handwritten document especially touching character segmentation also we have discussed the process involved in touching character segmentation and the problem in those processes with their solution. The proposed method is tested on the database set of 250 handwritten touching characters. Experimental results indicate that the method used correctly segments the touching characters.