On the performance of Devnagari handwritten character recognition

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1012-1019

  Kumar, Rajiv ^a   Ravulakollu, Kiran Kumar ^a  

^a SHARDA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Benchmark dataset; Character Recognition; Handwritten form processing; Neural network classifier and KNN classifier

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897068659     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5829/idosi.wasj.2014.31.06.2062     Document Type: Article

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