Optical Character Recognition(OCR) is the process of translation of images of typewritten or handwritten text into machine encoded text. Recently Indian Handwritten Character Recognition is getting much more attention and researchers are contributing a lot in this field. But Malayalam, a South Indian language has very less works in this area and needs further attention. This book focuses on an efficient algorithm for recognizing the handwritten Malayalam characters. It consists of basically 15 vowels and 37 consonants. The existence of lot of their combinations and connected characters, the...