What features to extract for handwritten character recognition?

I am working on handwritten character recognition using neural networks. Currently I have segmented each character from the image. Now I want to extract features of each character so that I can feed them to the neural network. So what features should I extract from each character image?. Please suggest any sample code or procedure.

Answer 1

[Image Analyst]

I did suggest something, in your duplicate question: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/124970#answer_132758