Theory and Methods for Character Recognition of Gurmukhi Script

Abstract

Gurmukhi script is a moderately complex pattern of primitive characters their half forms, upper and lower vowel-modifier symbols and diacritical marks. The present work describes the design and implementation of a scheme for the off-line recognition of the isolated primitive characters of the Gurmukhi script. A hierachical control strategy which exploits the character stroke features of varying degree of complexity to achieve efficiency in the recognition, is used.