Recognition of Printed Sinhala Characters by Direction Fields

Abstract: Although substantial research has been carried out on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) where a printd or a handwritten document of script is read as an image and converted to the editable text format, for various languages during the last 30 years, majority of Brahmi descended south Asian scripts are yet to achieve a commercial OCR system.

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