Title: Online Handwritten Text Recognition for Indian Scripts
Abstract: Online Handwriting Recognition has been a rigorous research area for the last few decades.Substantial amount of work has been reported on the online handwriting recognition of Western, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Arabic Scripts, but few related to Indian scripts.In this paper a review of online HCR work on almost all popular Indian scripts such as Devanagari, Gurmukhi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Urdu, Kannada, Oriya, and Gujarati is presented.The review is organized into 7 sections.Section 1 covers introduction.Properties of Indian scripts and general architecture of online HCR is given in section 2 and 3.In section 4, research work done on online handwriting for Indian scripts is summarized.Challenges of online HCR are discussed in section 5.The scope of future work and further steps needed for Indian script based online HCR development are discussed in section 6. Conclusions are given in section 7.