Classification of Handwritten Tamil Characters in Palm Leaf Manuscripts Using SVM Based Smart Zoning Strategies
R. S. Sabeenian, M. E. Paramasivam, P. M. Dinesh, R. Adarsh, Gokul Ravi Kumar · 2017
Palm leaf manuscripts has been one of the ancient methods for writingbut with timethe quality of palm leaf manuscripts degrades and the content needs to be scribed in new set of leaves. In this paper, we have presented an alternate solution to save the Tamil literature contents in palm leaf manuscripts by identifying the handwritten Tamil characters in the manuscripts and storing them digitally. It includes extraction of features like perimeter, Euler number (4,8), Directional features from uniform zones and Zernike moments by dividing the image into different smart zones. The efficiency for character recognition is calculated by using confusion matrix from classification learner tool.