Recognition of Conjunctive Bangla Characters by Artificial Neural Network

Abstract

This paper is concerned with optical character recognition (OCR) system for Bangla conjunctive characters. A method is proposed giving emphasis on the identification of the characters using the proposed methodology. Here generalization is achieved by preprocessing the characters before presenting them to the system for classification. The pre-processing systematically functions isolating the characters from BMP images, as well as noise removal, scaling and binary image conversion. The method uses a flexible matching between sample data and training data components applying Multi-layered Feed-forward Artificial Neural Network. A number of parameters of Neural Network are estimated so that the system performance is improved in comparison with normal training. Classification of character is defined as error minimization among the possible training set. Also, a measure of the amount of distortion for this training is given. Application of Artificial Neural Network in character recognition has made the system faster with optimum performance.