On the recognition of Arabic characters using hough transform technique

Malaysian Journal of Computer Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 39-47

  Fakir, Mohamed ^a   Hassani, M M ^b   Sodeyama, Chuichi ^c  

^a Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences ^*  (Morocco)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES SEMLALIA   (Morocco)

^c MAEBASHI INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arabic scripts; Dynamic programming; Features extraction; Hough transform; Midline skew correction; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847280164     PISSN: 01279084     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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