Character recognition of Devanagari characters using Artificial Neural Network

In this paper we have presented a novel approach for recognizing the handwritten characters in Devanagari script .This paper describes the method and different techniques used for handwritten character recognition system for Devanagari script .In second stage we extract features of the characters into consideration like types of spine ,intersection points ,directional changes and shirolekha .we have used neural network as a classifier which takes the extracted features as input .The proposed algorithm uses the scripting properties the recognition rate achieved with this technique is 80%.