Segmentation of Arabic handwriting based on both contour and skeleton segmentation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 793-797

  Wshah, Safwan ^a   Shi, Zhixin ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARABIC DOCUMENT; ARABIC HANDWRITING; ARABIC LANGUAGES; OFF-LINE HANDWRITTEN; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SMALL SIZE;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 71249116069     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.152     Document Type: Conference Paper

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