A Novel Bilingual OCR for Printed Malayalam-English Text Based on Gabor Features and Dominant Singular Values
Bindu Philip, R. D. Sudhaker Samuel · 2009
In this paper a bilingual character recognition system is proposed for the characterization and classification of printed Malayalam-English characters. Indian scripts in general are rich in patterns and variations. Gabor features are extracted after the word level segmentation to identify the script and recognition is based on characterization using dominant singular values. A recognition rate of 96.5% was achieved for the two-stage classification approach.