Information Technology Journal1812-56381812-5646Asian Network for Scientific Information10.3923/itj.2006.476.484ZafarMuhammad FaisalMohamadDzulkifli .OthmanRazib M.3200653This study describes the simple approach involved in online handwriting recognition. Conventionally, the data obtained needs a lot of preprocessing including filtering, smoothing, slant removing and size normalization before recognition process. Instead of doing such lengthy preprocessing, this study presents a simple approach to extract the useful character information. The whole process requires no preprocessing and size normalization. This research evaluates the use of the Back-propagation Neural Network (BPN) and presents feature extraction mechanism in full detail to work with on-line handwriting recognition. The obtained recognition rates were 51 to 83% using the BPN for different sets of character samples. This study also describes a performance study in which a recognition mechanism with multiple thresholds is evaluated for back-propagation architecture. The results indicate that the application of multiple thresholds has significant effect on recognition mechanism. This is a writer-independent system and the method is applicable for off-line character recognition as well. The technique is tested for upper-case English alphabets for a number of different styles from different subjects.]]>Alessandro, V.,20023514331433Ahmed, S.M., M. Ahmad, M. Asif, A. Majid and M.Z. Faisal,19951995pp: 6167Namboodiri, A.M. and A.K. Jain,200426124130Dzulkifli, M. and M.F. Zafar,200414479487Ferand, R., O.J. Bernier, J.E. Viallet and M. Collobert,2001234253Gader, P.D., B. Forester, M. Ganzberger, A. Billies, B. Mitchell, M. Whalen and T. Youcum,19915421431Govindan, V.K. and A.P. Shivaprasad,199023671683Iqbal, A. and M.Z. Faisal,19981998pp: 4150Jean-Francois, H., P. Marc and N. Ghazali,19981998pp: 11211123Kim, H.J. and H.S. Yang,19942712911302Koerich, L.,20022002Koerich, A.L., R. Sabourin and C.Y. Suen,2003697121Kotanzad, A. and J.H. Lu,19881625632LeCun, Y., L. Bottou, Y. Bengio and P. Haffner,19988622782324Lethelier, L.M. and M. Gilloux,19951995pp: 9297Liu, C.L., S. Jaeger and M. Nakagawa,200426198213Matan, O., J.C. Burges, Y. Le Cun, J.S. Denker,19921992pp: 488-495pp: 488-495Mitoma, H., S. Uchida and H. Sakoe,20052005pp: 3640Nouboud, F. and R. Plamondon,19902310311044Powalka, R.K.,19951995Plamondon, R. and S.N. Srihari,2000226384Rumelhart, D.E., G.E. Hinton and R.J. Williams,19861986pp: 318-362pp: 318-362Shridhar, M. and A. Badreldin,198619112Steinherz, T., E. Rivlin and N. Intrator,1999290110Suen, C.Y., M. Berthod and S. Mori,198068469487Tappert, C.C., C.Y. Suen and T. Wakahara,199012787808Zafar, M.F. and M. Dzulkifli,2005426582Zhang, F.M., H. Yan and M.A. Fabri,199910939945Zhang, G.P.,200030451462Zhou, J.,19991999Bishop, C.M.,19951st Edn.,Bortolozzi, F., A. Britto Jr, L.S. Oliveira and M. Morita,20052005Freeman, J.A. and D.M. Skapura,1991Kapp, M.N., C. Freitas and R. Sabourin,20042004pp: 209214Sagar, G. and S. Barman,20012001Koblentz, E.,20052005Le Cun Y., L. Bottou, G.B. Orr and K.R. Muller,19981998Lemieux, A., G. Christian and P. Marc,20022002pp: 145150Lee, L.L., M.G. Lizarraga, N.R. Gomes and A.L. Koerich199711549570