ADVANCED PROFILE PROJECTION TECHNIQUE FOR CHARACTER SEGMENTATION OF HANDWRITTEN TEXT IN GURUMUKHI SCRIPT

Character segmentation is current topic of discussion for today’s research work. Because of its importance in recognition of characters. It is th e most basic step in the process of recognition of characters But it is not an easy job to separate characters from words specially in handwritten text because writing styles vary from person to person. Not only this there are other so many problems associ ated with it like overlapping of characters, touching of characters, broken characters, skewed characters. Besides that there is also the concept of upper zone, lower zone and middle zone. This paper presents an Advanced profile projection technique for ch aracter segmentation which deals with overlapping of characters, touching characters, broken characters in handwritten text o Gurumukhi script