Handwritten Character Recognition In Malayalam Scripts- A Review

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress and challenges in handwritten Malayalam character recognition, highlighting its complexity compared to other languages and summarizing key research contributions in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances and challenges in offline and online handwritten Malayalam script recognition, emphasizing the unique complexities of the language.

Findings

Malayalam HCR is more complex due to large character set and modifiers

Significant progress has been made in offline recognition methods

Online recognition techniques are also evolving to handle Malayalam scripts

Abstract

Handwritten character recognition is one of the most challenging and ongoing areas of research in the field of pattern recognition. HCR research is matured for foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese but the problem is much more complex for Indian languages. The problem becomes even more complicated for South Indian languages due to its large character set and the presence of vowels modifiers and compound characters. This paper provides an overview of important contributions and advances in offline as well as online handwritten character recognition of Malayalam scripts.