Devnagari handwritten character recognition (DHCR) for ancient documents: A review

The field of character recognition has attracted more concentration of researchers for recognizing text from ancient documents. But because of some of the problems like error in recognition in text lines, overlapped characters, joined text line, ages, damage in text lines it is becoming more challenging for them to recognize the text. However, Most of devnagari handwritten ancient documents are not available for all, because of their delicate condition. The purpose of recognizing such document is to preserve and retrieve ancient knowledge from ancient manuscripts. So here we are giving review of some of the methods for detection of characters easily with less error in retrieved text.