An approach to offline Arabic Character recognition using Neural networks

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems

Volumn 3, Issue , 2003, Pages 1328-1331

  Nawaz, S N ^a   Sarfraz, M ^a   Zidouri, A ^a   Al Khatib, W G ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arabic character recognition; Artificial Neural networks; Feature extaction; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ARABIC CHARACTERS; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; AUTOMATION PROCESS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; DATA ENTRIES; FEATURE EXTACTION; OFFLINE; OTHER APPLICATIONS; RBF NETWORK; SEGMENTATION; WINDOWS ENVIRONMENT; MULTI SIZES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CHARACTER SETS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

NEURAL NETWORKS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 58349121438     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICECS.2003.1301760     Document Type: Conference Paper

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