Abstract: This paper is a review of Devnagri character recognition. Generally character recognition system is divided into two types as online and offline character recognition system. Process of character recognition involves the common steps as preprocessing, segmentation and feature extraction. Feature extraction is used to classify an unknown handwritten character into one of the known classes. Finally character gets recognized by pattern matching. In case of character recognition system especially Devnagri character recognition is more complicated as it having multiple loops, conjuncts, upper and lower modifiers and the number of disconnected and multistroke characters. Keywords – Classification, Devnagri Character, Feature Extraction, Recognition and Segmentation.
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