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Introduction
A text recognition system has a variety of commercial and practical applications in reading forms manuscripts and their archival etc Such a system facilitates a keyboard less usercomputer interaction Also the text which is either printed or handwritten can be directly transferred to the machine It is a great help to the visually handicapped when interfaced with a voice synthesizer An elaborate list of the applications has been compiled by Govind  The challenge of building a text recognition system which can match the human competing performance also provides a strong motivation for research in this field