OCR for printed Kannada text to machine editable format using database approach
B. M. Sagar, G. Shobha, P. Ramakanth Kumar · WSEAS Transactions on Computers archive · 2008
This paper describes an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for printed text documents in Kannada, a South Indian language. The proposed OCR system for the recognition of printed Kannada text, which can handle all types of Kannada characters. The system first extracts image of Kannada scripts, then from the image to line segmentation then segments the words into sub-character level pieces. For character recognition we have used database approach. The level of accuracy reached to 100%.