A new algorithm for machine printed Arabic character segmentation

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 1723-1729

  Zheng, Liying ^a,b   Hassin, Abbas H ^a   Tang, Xianglong ^a  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Arabic text; Off line character recognition; Segmentation techniques; Structural features

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SCIENCE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

ARABIC TEXT; OFF-LINE CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SEGMENTATION TECHNIQUES; STRUCTURAL FEATURES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 5644259868     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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