Online Handwriting Recognition for Smaller Units in Devanagari and Tamil Scripts

The research for handwriting in Indic scripts is at early stage as compared to Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Latin and Indic scripts. It is especially limited for larger units’ online handwriting in Indic scripts. In the present study, we have demonstrated the available work for smaller units in two Indic scripts: Devanagari and Tamil. In these studies, it has been observed, the work done for smaller units in these scripts is much more as compared to larger units work in Devanagari and Tamil scripts. The statistical recognition techniques have been successfully used in these results. The smaller units results presented in present study have been obtained from premier journals and conferences of artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and handwriting recognition as Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Pattern Recognition(PR), Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition(IJDAR) , International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition(ICDAR) and International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR) etcetera.