Enhancing the performance of handwritten tamil character recognition system by slant removal and introducing special features

International Journal of Soft Computing

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-143

  Shanthi, N ^a   Duraiswamy, K ^a  

^a K S RANGASAMY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Preprocessing; Support vector machine; Tamil character recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866080823     PISSN: 18169503     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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