• DocumentCode
    3020246
  • Title

    Challenges in OCR of Devanagari documents

  • Author

    Kompalli, Suryaprakash ; Nayak, Sankalp ; Setlur, Srirangaraj ; Govindaraju, Venu

  • Author_Institution
    CEDAR, Univ. at Buffalo, Amherst, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    29 Aug.-1 Sept. 2005
  • Firstpage
    327
  • Abstract
    OCR of Devanagari script presents a wide range of challenges that are not seen in Latin based scripts. This paper outlines the implementation of a neural network based Devanagari OCR. Experimental results on a standard data set are reported and analyzed.
  • Keywords
    document handling; natural languages; neural nets; optical character recognition; Devanagari OCR documents; Latin based scripts; neural network; standard data set; Character generation; Character recognition; Frequency; Image segmentation; Neural networks; Optical character recognition software; Optical computing; Robustness; Software libraries; Venus;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Document Analysis and Recognition, 2005. Proceedings. Eighth International Conference on
  • ISSN
    1520-5263
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7695-2420-6
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDAR.2005.70
  • Filename
    1575563