Survey on Handwritten Gujarati Word Image Matching

Abstract

Over the past decade, there has been a rising interest in addressing knowledge indexing using word matching, demonstrated by the ever-increasing number of approaches. Research on the subject of word matching in handwritten documents has been an active research field, and substantial progress has been made in dominating scripts in recent years. However, a regional script like Gujarati still lacks research attention. This paper provides an overview of the published word spotting research efforts in handwritten as well as printed document images for Indian scripts. The major contribution of this paper is to provide a bird's eye view of the field and identify potential research gaps specifically for handwritten Gujarati word image matching.