A complete bengali OCR: A novel hybrid approach to handwritten bengali character recognition

Journal of Computing and Information Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 395-413

  Rahman, A F R ^a,b   Kaykobad, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b BANGLADESH UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Handwritten bengali character recognition; Hierarchical structure; Syntactic recognition

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER SETS; SAMPLING; SYNTACTICS; TEMPLATE MATCHING;

BENGALIS; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HYBRID APPROACH; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; SYNTACTIC RECOGNITION; TEMPLATE MATCHING TECHNIQUE; TRAINING SAMPLE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0008599887     PISSN: 13301136     EISSN: 18463908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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