Comparison of different preprocessing and feature extraction methods for offline recognition of handwritten Arabic words

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 974-978

  El Abed, Haikal ^a   Märgner, Volker ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; FEATURE SETS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 51149087240     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4377060     Document Type: Conference Paper

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