I. Introduction
Image ZONING is a widespread feature extraction technique for handwritten character recognition. In fact, image zoning is rightly considered effective for coping with the changeability of handwritten patterns, due to different writing styles and personal variability of the writers. By letting be a pattern image, an image zoning method can be generally considered as a partition of into subimages ( is an integer which is ), or named zones (i.e., ), each one providing local information on pattern images [1], [2].