Odia is a classical and popular language in the Indian subcontinent used by more than 50 million people. In spite of its rich history, popularity and usefulness, not much research efforts have been made to achieve high level accuracy in case of Odia OCR. New handwritten alphanumeric character and numeral datasets for Odia are created by our research group@iitbbs and reported here in order to address the paucity of benchmark Odia datasets.
Double-identity fingerprint is a fake fingerprint created by aligning two fingerprints for maximum ridge similarity and then joining them along an estimated cutline such that relevant features of both fingerprints
are present on either sides of the cutline. The fake fingerprint containing the features of the criminal and his innocuous accomplice can be enrolled with an electronic machine readable travel document and later used to cross the automated