A feature extraction technique for online handwriting recognition

The paper presents a feature extraction technique for online handwriting recognition. The technique incorporates many characteristics of handwritten characters based on structural, directional and zoning information and combines them to create a single global feature vector. The technique is independent to character size and it can extract features from the raw data without resizing. Using the proposed technique and a Neural Network based classifier, many experiments were conducted on UNIPEN benchmark database. The recognition rates are 98.2% for digits, 91.2% for uppercase and 91.4% for lowercase.