Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been effectively

developed for the recognition of printed characters of non-Indian languages. Efforts

are on the way for the development of efficient OCR systems for Indian languages,

especially for Kannada, a popular South Indian language.We present in this paper

an OCR system developed for the recognition of basic characters (vowels and consonants)

in printed Kannada text, which can handle different font sizes and font

types.