TECHNIQUES AND METHODOLOGIES FOR RECOGNITION OF TAMIL TYPEWRITTEN AND HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS : A SURVEY

Abstract

Recording information both typewritten and handwritten has always been a common mode of communication and also for documenting purposes in day to day life. Machine recognizing of information both, type and hand written has a good practical significance in various context like, reading notes on electronic devices like Tablets, in scanned documents, like Bank cheques etc. The paper is about various methodologies and techniques that were proposed to recognize Tamil characters over time from scanned documents and other similar medium.