On multiple typeface arabic script recognition

Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 428-435

  Zidouri, Abdelmalek ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arabic character recognition; Cursive script; Multi font; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ARABIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ARABIC CHARACTERS; ARABIC OCR; ARABIC SCRIPTS; CURSIVE SCRIPT; FONT SIZE; MODULARIZED; MULTI-FONT; NEURAL NET; REAL PROBLEMS; SEGMENTATION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79953095731     PISSN: 20407459     EISSN: 20407467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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