Study on feature extraction methods for character recognition of Balinese script on palm leaf manuscript images

The complexity of Balinese script and the poor quality of palm leaf manuscripts provide a new challenge for testing and evaluation of robustness of feature extraction methods for character recognition. With the aim of finding the combination of feature extraction methods for character recognition of Balinese script, we present, in this paper, our experimental study on feature extraction methods for character recognition on palm leaf manuscripts. We investigated and evaluated the performance of 10 feature extraction methods and we proposed the proper and robust combination of feature extraction methods to increase the recognition rate.