Arabic Handwriting Data Base for Text Recognition

A data base for Arabic handwritten text recognition research

In this paper we present a new database for off-line Arabic handwriting recognition, together with several preprocessing procedures. We designed, collected and stored a database of Arabic handwriting (AHDB). This resulted in a unique databases dealing with handwritten information from Arabic text, both in terms of the size of the database as well as the number of different writers involved. We ...

Arabic Handwriting Recognition

This thesis explores a number of different techniques for use in the field of Arabic Handwriting Recognition. A review of previous work in the field is conducted, and then various techniques are explored in the context of classifying town names from the IFN/ENIT database. A baseline-finding algorithm using Principal Components Analysis is implemented, and the change in performance from reducing...

Multi-agent Systems for Arabic Handwriting Recognition

Segmentation-Free Online Arabic Handwriting Recognition

Arabic script is naturally cursive and unconstrained and, as a result, an automatic recognition of its handwriting is a challenging problem. The analysis of Arabic script is further complicated in comparison to Latin script due to obligatory dots/stokes that are placed above or below most letters. In this paper, we introduce a new approach that performs online Arabic word recognition on a conti...

Text Localisation and Handwriting Recognition

This report discusses several general aspects of text localisation and handwriting recognition. In particular, we consider their applications to extraction and recognition of numerals written on Giro forms. For text localisation, we investigate the problem of extracting text printed or written inside boxes on forms. We review a number of representative methods for solving this problem, describe...