English Character Recognition using Artificial Neural Network

Abstract: This work focuses on development of a Offline Hand Written English Character Recognition algorithm based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN). The ANN implemented in this work has single output neuron which shows whether the tested character belongs to a particular cluster or not. The implementation is carried out completely in 'C' language. Ten sets of English alphabets (small-26, capital-26) were used to train the ANN and 5 sets of English alphabets were used to test the network. The characters were collected from different persons over duration of about 25 days. The algorithm was tested with 5 capital letters and 5 small letter sets. However, the result showed that the algorithm recognized English alphabet patterns with maximum accuracy of 92.59% and False Rejection Rate (FRR) of 0%.