Recognition of off-line printed Arabic text using Hidden Markov Models

Signal Processing

Volumn 88, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2902-2912

  Al Muhtaseb, Husni A ^a   Mahmoud, Sabri A ^a   Qahwaji, Rami S ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabic text recognition; Feature extraction; Hidden Markov Models; Omni font recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; DECODING; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; WINDOWS;

ARABIC CHARACTERS; ARABIC TEXT RECOGNITION; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; CODE BOOKS; DIFFERENT SIZES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING; OMNI FONT RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION RATES; RESEARCH WORKS; SLIDING WINDOW TECHNIQUES; SLIDING WINDOWS;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 50049123853     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2008.06.013     Document Type: Article

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