Online Handwriting Recognition for Devanagari Script in Recent Past

Handwriting recognition (HWR) represents to the procedure of understanding handwritten text written on the paper or digital surface.When handwritten text is recognized while writing on the digital surface, it is called online handwriting recognition (OHWR). An OHWR modelcomprises of different phases as data collection, preprocessing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification etc. The present study has been done for the Brahmi script Devanagari, which is the script of Indian national language Hindi and it is used in all regions of the country. This study shows the work done for online Devanagari handwriting recognition in recent past.This study has taken into consideration the work done for larger units (words or sentences) and smaller units (as characters and strokes). The present study has presented the results from reputed journals/conferences of pattern/handwriting recognition as PR( Pattern Recognition), PAMI (Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence), PRL(Pattern Recognition Letters), IWFHR (International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition), IJDAR (International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition ),ICDAR (International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition) and ICFHR (International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition)etc.