Handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR): A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review (SLR)

Understand

Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth.

• Optical character recognition is a science that enables to translate various types of documents or images into analyzable, editable and searchable data.
• During last decade, researchers have used artificial intelligence / machine learning tools to automatically analyze handwritten and printed documents in order to convert them into electronic format.
• The objective of this review paper is to summarize research that has been conducted on character recognition of handwritten documents and to provide research directions.