RECOGNITION OF PRINTED KANNADA NUMERALS BY NEAREST NEIGHBOR METHOD

Numeral recognition is considered to be very prominent in most of the Character recognition researches. With respect to applications like number plate recognition and document processing the numerals are composed as a part of number plate images/application form type document images. This paper mainly focuses on eliminating language barriers that may arise while comprehending the regional language numerals by a non-regional user at the time of number plate recognition or other application form type document processing with special reference to Karnataka state. An algorithm is devised by incorporating the capabilities of functionalities of features the handwritten and printed Kannada numerals