Applications for handwritten script digitization include automated form processing, archival preservation, document digitization, handwriting recognition software, and historical document research. The performance of the recognition algorithms, the complex nature of the script, and the handwriting quality all affect how accurate the digitization is. Significant research on handwritten text recognition in scripts like Latin, Chinese, Arabic, and Japanese is reported. Still in its infancy, the work described on handwritten Indic scripts necessitates extensive research in this area. This thorough analysis offers an open view of different feature extraction and classification methods for the offline and online identification of handwritten Indic scripts.The primary objective of this paper is to explore the accuracy and efficiency of recognition systems by analyzing several state-of-the-art studies and comparing and evaluating various techniques for Tulu script handwritten character recognition. This paper aims to describe various advancements reported over the last few decades in the field of handwritten scripts recognition.