In its constant endeavor to deliver cutting-edge innovation to masses, C-DAC GIST has created a new technology for "Online Handwritten Character Recognition".
Go-WRite is the first of its kind technology for Indian scripts. The technology facilitates and even more simplifies the human machine interaction by aiding natural text entry.
Handwritten Recognition poses a special problem in relation to Indian scripts. Most Indic scripts use a large number of characters, as opposed to English. Each handwritten script admits various handwriting styles that vary according to region, making recognition a challenging task. Thus for all scripts; the writing style varies from North to South India also from person to person and age group to age group.
CDAC-GIST has undertaken comprehensive research in handwriting styles across India to come up with the best possible Handwriting recognition technology for Devanagari. The outcome is based on research in image processing and allied areas. The work on this was initiated by CDAC-GIST in year 2005.
The technology has high potential in India and can be deployed across a wide panorama of applications like, sending handwritten inputted SMS's, language learning games and day to day form filling applications like railway reservation.
GO-WRITE represents the best in image processing and embedded technology. Although deployed at present for Devanagari, GO-WRITE can be easily adapted to other Brahmi based scripts. Go-Write Lite version is developed entirely for low resource portable devices like PDA, the important features of this recognizer engine are its small memory footprint, fast speed, highly portable code across platforms and robust pre-processing modules, making it the most advanced handwritten recognition technology available in India.
More advanced research in this area is now being undertaken in consortia mode under the aegis of TDIL, Department of Information technology, Government of India where C-DAC GIST is also a member of the team. For more details, please contact:  |