A Review on Handwritten Character Recognition Methods and Techniques

In this paper a detailed review of Handwritten Character Recognition is presented. Some features of human beings are unique to individuals like iris, fingerprint, DNA etc. Handwriting is one such feature which is different for each human being and it has been proven scientifically. In Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) the task is to identify the characters written by humans and converting it into digital text. HCR is a field where plenty of research has been done but still there is scope in terms of improving the accuracy and efficiency. Digitizing manually written text is very useful in today's world as it makes information readily available anywhere and anytime. Digitized text can be used for commercial purposes and it is more safe and environment friendly as compared to manual text. This review paper will shed some light on various methodologies used till now in this field along with their advantages, limitations and accuracy rate.