FEATURE EXTRACTION APPROACHES FOR OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITIONSince the 1950s character recognition has been an active field of research for computer scientists worldwide. The main reason is that character recognition is not only an interesting area of theoretical research with relevance to many pattern recognition sub fields, but also a very needed and useful real life application. Making computers able to read would allow for substantial savings in terms of the costs for data entry, mail processing, form