Alphanumeric Character Recognition


Harshit Maheshwari
Computer Science, IIT-Kanpur

Handwritten character recognition is a challenging classification task that has been studied extensively and remains an active area of research. The toughness in the task arises due to the large variability that arises amongst handwritten characters in the form of shape and size of character, the thickness of strokes, edges and curvatures
The character set that we have considered consists of the 62 alphanumeric characters in English {0- 9, a-z, A-Z}. In this project, we aim to produce comparative results obatined by trying out several of the existing methods for classification.