Handwritten Text Recognition of Letters in Kyrgyz Language

Abstract

This article deals with a new handwritten dataset, Kyrgyz-MNIST, and recognition of handwritten Kyrgyz letters through the Artificial Neural Network. There were collected 89 023 manuscript samples of 36 Kyrgyz letters. Since 33 of the 36 letters in the Kyrgyz language are similar to the Russian letters, the special letters “ң”, “ү”, and “ө” were studied with special emphasis. The system of handwriting recognition works with Image processing methods and Machine Learning algorithms helped to recognize Kyrgyz manuscripts and convert them into computer letters. As a result, the CNN method recognized the handwriting letters more accurately. In total 36 letters were recognized with an average accuracy of 99.1%. Newly studied, the special letters in Kyrgyz Language are also recognized with more than 99% correct.

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