A Survey on Handwritten Characters Recognition Systems in Kannada Language

Abstract

 Handwritten Character Recognition (HCR) is a challenging field in image processing in which there active research is going on. Kannada language is an ancient language which consists of lot of handwritten documents and digitising them is very helpful to preserve them over time. In this paper, we study various research papers available in literature related to HCR system for Kannada language and provide a brief description of each and provide a comparative study of the same. We also provide various challenges and trends in this complex area to provide an overview to future researchers.