Offline recognition of omnifont Arabic text using the HMM ToolKit (HTK)

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1563-1571

  Khorsheed, M S ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ CITY FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic OCR; Document analysis; HTK; Machine vision; Pattern analysis and recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VECTORS;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; NARROW WINDOW; OMNIFONT ARABIC TEXT;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 34250873850     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.03.014     Document Type: Article

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