%0 Journal Article %T Character Segmentation Of Degraded Odia Script %A Ipsita Pattnaik %A Tushar Patnaik %J Asian Journal of Computer and Information Systems %D 2020 %R 10.24203/ajcis.v8i2.6097 %X Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a field which converts printed text into computer understandable format that is editable in nature. Odia is a regional language used in Odisha, West Bengal & Jharkhand. It is used by over forty million people and still counting. With such large dependency on a language makes it important, to preserve its script, get a digital editable version of odia script. We propose a framework that takes computer printed odia script image as an input & gives a computer readable & user editable format of same, which eventually recognizes the characters printed in input image. The system uses various techniques to improve the image & perform Line segmentation followed by word segmentation & finally character segmentation using horizontal & vertical projection profile %K [ocr %K Pre-processing %K segmentation] %U https://www.ajouronline.com/index.php/AJCIS/article/view/6097