Handwriting recognition system can be defined as the ability of a computer to intelligently recognize the handwritten text by the user. The handwriting recognition is considered to be an open research topic due to the fact that every human being has a unique handwriting as well as there are numerous languages which are being used worldwide in written form. A neural network can be designed for recognizing handwritten texts in any language required. As different people have different handwriting styles, the task of recognizing the handwriting is a difficult task. As of today, the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Engines are primarily focused on machine printed texts or handwritten texts which are written in block letters. By recognizing the texts in the handwritten text images by the user into letter codes is becomes usable digitally in computers and text processing applications.