A Resource-Conscious Approach to Hindi Handwritten Word Recognition: A Comparative Study with Google Cloud Vision API

Vilasini, V and Harsith, S and Vibhav Krishnan, K S (2025) A Resource-Conscious Approach to Hindi Handwritten Word Recognition: A Comparative Study with Google Cloud Vision API. 2025 International Conference on Next Generation Computing Systems (ICNGCS). pp. 1-6.

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Abstract

The recognition of Hindi handwritten words is still a difficult issue because of the absence of big, high-quality datasets, a variety of handwriting styles, and restricted resources. On handwritten Hindi text, general-purpose OCR algorithms perform poorly, even with intensive multilingual training. This study uses a ResNet-50 convolutional neural network, trained on a publicly accessible Hindi handwriting dataset, to suggest a straightforward yet efficient supervised way. By contrasting our results with a popular commercial OCR system, we show that domain-specific, focused training greatly improves recognition performance in low-resource languages. In order to develop strong handwriting recognition systems, the results highlight importance of specialized datasets and low processing power

Item Type: Article
Subjects: Artificial Intelligence and Data Science > Deep Learning
Computer Science and Engineering > Neural Networks
Divisions: Computer Science and Engineering
Depositing User: Dr Krishnamurthy V
Date Deposited: 15 Dec 2025 08:25
Last Modified: 15 Dec 2025 08:25
URI: https://ir.psgitech.ac.in/id/eprint/1593

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