A Framework for Word Spotting In Scanned Urdu Documents by Exploiting the Dot Orientation

نویسندگان

  • Muhammad Shafi
  • Faisal Iqbal
  • Iftikhar Ahmed Khan
  • Muhammad Irfan Khattak
  • Mohammad Saleem
  • Naeem Khan
چکیده

Urdu is one of the most widely used languages in the world and there is a need of developing character recognition and word-spotting algorithms, so that Urdu literature can be made easily accessible and searchable to the Urdu reading population. Although there has been a sizeable research for character recognition, very few articles have been published for word-spotting in Urdu language. Unlike English language (with only two alphabets with dots), in Urdu language 17 out of 38 alphabets have dots either above or beneath them. This paper presents a data reduction framework, based on exploiting the dot orientation for word spotting in Urdu scanned documents. After applying the proposed scheme, the number of eligible candidates for the target word is greatly reduced. As demonstrated in the Results and Analysis section, the proposed algorithm has shown promising results with an average data reduction rate of 79.8%. [Muhammad Shafi, Faisal Iqbal, Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Irfan Khattak, Mohammad Saleem, Naeem Khan. A Framework for Word Spotting In Scanned Urdu Documents by Exploiting the Dot Orientation. Life Sci J 2013; 10(7s): 1163-1171]. (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com 185

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تاریخ انتشار 2013