Arabic character recognition: A survey

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3386, Issue , 1998, Pages 331-340

  Sharaf Eldin, A ^a   Nouh, A S ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic character recognition; Arabization; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SURVEYS;

ARABIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ARABIC CHARACTERS; ARABIZATION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CRITICAL EVALUATION; PROBLEM AREAS; REVIEW PAPERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33645162198     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.304779     Document Type: Conference Paper

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