Multi-script handwriting recognition with FOHDEL

Until now handwritten character recognition systems used script specific methodologies. We present a unified syntactic approach for multi-script recognition. The fuzzy pattern description language FOHDEL is used to store fuzzy features in the form of fuzzy rules. First we briefly describe the proposed recognition methodology for Latin, Devanagari and Kanji scripts by analyzing their characteristic properties. Further we present the main features of FOHDEL by a comparative rule generation of three scripts under experiment. Finally the system integration of the proposed multi-script recognition scheme in the existing Latin recognition system is presented.