Off-line handwritten Arabic character segmentation algorithm: ACSA

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 452-457

  Sari, Toufik ^a   Souici, Labiba ^a   Sellami, Mokhtar ^a  

^a BADJI MOKHTAR UNIVERSITY   (Algeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ARABIC CHARACTER SEGMENTATIONS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; HANDWRITTEN WORDS; MORPHOLOGICAL RULES; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; SEGMENTATION ALGORITHMS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 57349163061     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IWFHR.2002.1030952     Document Type: Conference Paper

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