Handwritten Character Recognition to Obtain Editable Text

摘要

Developing an android application for character recognition to read the text from an image is a big area of research. Nowadays, there is a trend of storing information from the handwritten documents for future use. A simple way to store the information is image capturing of the handwritten document and save it in image format. The method to transform handwritten data into electronic format is 'Optical Character Recognition'. It involves several steps including pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and post-processing. Many researchers have been used OCR for recognizing character. This system uses the android phone to capture the image of the document and further steps are done by OCR. The main challenge is to recognize the characters from different styles of handwriting. Thus, a system is designed that recognizes the handwritten data to obtain an editable text. The output of this system depends upon the data that has to be written by the writer. Our system offers 90% accuracy for handwritten documents and gives the easiest way to edit or share the recognized data.