Recognition of Khmer Characters from Image taken by Portable Digital Camera

Abstract

In this paper, we describe a system for off-line recognition of Khmer characters. Khmer language is a phonogram and its character consists of consonant letters and vowel letters. Moreover, these letters contain many horizontal strokes and verticals strokes. These characteristics can be utilized to recognize Khmer-letter image which is taken by built-in digital camera of mobile phone. And, we aim to apply our system to be an automatic Khmer-Japanese translation service, that is, if we send a picture of Khmer language to the server we will receive its meaning in Japanese language via email.