%0 Journal Article %T Techniques and Methodologies for Recognition of Tamil Typewritten and Handwritten Characters: A Survey %A C P Sumathi %A S Karpagavalli %J International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Survey %D 2013 %I Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (AIRCC) %X Recording information both typewritten and handwritten has always been a common mode ofcommunication and also for documenting purposes in day to day life. Machine recognizing of informationboth, type and hand written has a good practical significance in various context like, reading notes onelectronic devices like Tablets, in scanned documents, like Bank cheques etc. The paper is about variousmethodologies and techniques that were proposed to recognize Tamil characters over time from scanneddocuments and other similar medium. %K Tamil character recognition %K Techniques %K Typewritten %K Handwritten %K SVM %K Neural Networks. %U Tamil character recognition, Techniques, Typewritten, Handwritten, SVM, Neural Networks.