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This paper experiments writer independent OHCR for Malayalam script using KNN, MLP and SVM classifiers. The key aspect of the work is to identify the best classifier based on recognition accuracy for a set of features. The system is trained using a database of 44 character classes with 100 samples per class. Accurate Dominant Points, Aspect Ratio, Start-End Octants and Intersections are used as features...