A Web based system to capture outlines of Arabic fonts

Information Sciences

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 177-193

  Sarfraz, M ^a   Razzak, F A ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Contour; Corner points; Font; Spline; Web

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CURVE FITTING; OPTIMIZATION;

ARABIC FONTS;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0037391555     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(02)00376-6     Document Type: Article

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