Recent Advances in Script Identification

Abstract

There are a variety of different scripts in the world. Almost every country have there own languages and scripts which can distinguish from each other in different aspects. It is very essential to identify different scripts in multi-lingual, multi-script document. In recent years, different kinds of approaches have been developed for script identification and gotten promising results. In this paper, an overview of the script identification is proposed under different categories: script systems, extracted features and classification methods. Earlier researches and future property of this field is discussed. It is very obvious that, the research in this area is not so satisfied and still more research is to be done.