In contrast to English alphabets, some characters in Indian languages such as Kannada, Hindi, Telugu may have either

horizontal or vertical or both the extensions making it di cult to enclose every such character in a standard rectangular

grid as done quite often in character recognition research. In this work, an improved method is proposed for the recognition

of such characters (especially Kannada characters), which can have spread in vertical and horizontal directions. The

method uses a standard sized rectangle which can circumscribe standard sized characters.