%0 Journal Article %T Comparison of Two Feature Extraction Method Based on the Raw Form and Skeleton for MNIST Database %A Kamal Moro %A Mohammed Fakir %A Badr Dine El Kessab %A Belaid Bouikhalene %J International Journal of Computer Science Research and Application %D 2012 %I INREWI Publications %X In this paper, we present a comparison of two few extraction methods based on the raw form and the skeleton. The experimental results show the benefit of using these methods compared with other conventional approaches; the findings have been applied on the MNIST database. The paper presents the evaluation work for the comparison of the two methods and provides conclusions based on the study outcomes. %K Optical character recognition %K neural network %K feature extraction %K MNIST database %K skeletonization %U http://www.ijcsra.org/v2i3p2.pdf