Distinctiveness and Similarities of Handwritten Numerals

Since ten digits have very important applications in our daily lives, for counting numbers, financial accounting, banking, trading and business transactions, etc, their analysis and recognition have been a very active topic of research in character recognition. In this paper, we apply new techniques of crucial combinations, to exploit distinctiveness and similarities of handwritten numerals in four- and six- partitions. The confusion combinations are also discovered to enhance pattern analysis. In-depth analyses and comparisons have been made using the most common models of numeric handprints. The results of this investigation create a new direction in finding and using the distinctive parts of characters for the recognition of handwritten numerals.