A heuristic algorithm for optical character recognition of Arabic script

Signal Processing

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-99

  Atici, A Alper ^a   Yarman Vural, Fatos T ^a  

^a MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Chain code; Contour following; HMM; Key feature; Main feature segment; Optical character recognition; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; GEOMETRY; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TOPOLOGY;

ARABIC SCRIPT; CHAIN CODE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MAIN FEATURE SEGMENT;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 0042133186     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0165-1684(97)00117-5     Document Type: Article

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