Abstract
Purpose: The Javanese script generally has a basic script or is commonly referred to as the “carakan” script. The script consists of 20 letters with different levels of difficulty. Some letters have similarities, so research is needed to make it easier to detect the image of Javanese characters. Methods: This study proposes recognizing Hiragana's writing characters using the K-Nearest Neighbor (K-NN) method. In the preprocessing stage, the segmentation process is carried out using the thresholding method to perform segmentation, followed by the Histogram of Gradient (HOG) feature extraction process and noise removal using median filtering. Histogram of Gradient (HoG) is one of the features used in computer vision and image processing in detecting an object in the form of a descriptor feature. There are 1000 data divided into 20 classes. Each class represents one letter of the basic Javanese script. Result: Based on data collection using the writings of 50 respondents where each respondent writes 20 basic Javanese characters, the highest accuracy was obtained at K = 1, namely 98.5%. Novelty: Using several preprocessing such as cropping, median filtering, otsu thresholding and HOG feature extraction before do classification, this experiment yields a good accuracy.