Recognition of Hindi Character Using OCR-Technology: A Review

Recognition of character is a technique that enables the transformation of various kinds of scanned papers into an editable, readable, and searchable format. In the last two decades, several researchers and technologists have been continuously working in this field to enhance the rate of accuracy. Recognition of character is classified into printed, hand-written, and characters written at image recognition. Recognition of character is the major area of research in the field of pattern recognition. This paper presents an overview of Hindi character recognition by utilizing the optical character recognition (OCR) technique. We surveyed some major research breakthroughs in character recognition, especially for Hindi characters. This research article focuses to provide a deeper insight into the researchers and technologists working in the field of recognition of Hindi-character.