Bangla and English City Name Recognition for Indian Postal Automation

Because of multi-lingual behavior destination address block of a postal document of an Indian state may be written in two or more scripts. From a statistical analysis of Indian postal document we noted that about 22.04% of Indian postal documents are written in two scripts. Because of inter-mixing of these scripts in postal address writings, it is very difficult to identify the script by which a city name is written. To avoid such identification difficulties, in this paper we proposed a lexicon-driven bi-lingual (English and Bangla) city name recognition scheme for Indian postal automation. We obtained 93.19% accuracy when tested on 11875 city name samples.