A Review on South-East and South-West Asian Script Identification

The largest and most populous continent is Asia. Southern Asia accounts for 39.49% of the total world population hosts variety of languages. The printed and handwritten texts need to be separated for recognition. It plays a critical role in the polygraphia formation, sharing of one script by several languages which have applications in multilingual access to patents, business regulatory information for independently evaluating all regional market requirements. Ideographic languages in Southeast Asian scripts are left-to-right or vertically top-to-bottom is more flexible in their writing direction. This paper presents a survey of challenges involved in analyzing handwritten and printed documents. The review work of especially popular scripts namely Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Sinhala, Balinese and Arabic using various methods of feature extraction and different classifiers are represented in this paper. It summarizes most of the existing methodologies in the papers published by various researchers.