A REVIEW ON VARIOUS TECHNIQUES FOR CHARACTER SEGMENTATION OF HANDWRITTEN TEXT DOCUMENTS

Character Segmentation is the process of separating characters from words. Character Segmentation of handwritten text is a challengenging task in O.C.R because of its features and varied writing styles of different writers. Handwritten text is also prone to the pro blems of overlapped characters, touching characters, skewed characters, broken characters which makes the segmentation process more complicated. Accuracy of character segmentation depend on upto which extent these problems are tacled and character is segme nted. In this paper we provide a review of various techniques used for character segmentation and also discuss existing problems of segmentation. Correct segmentation is necessary for correct recognition of characters