ICDAR 2011 - Arabic handwriting recognition competition

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1444-1448

  Märgner, Volker ^a   Abed, Haikal El ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Evaluation; IfN ENIT Database; Off line Text Recognition

Indexed keywords

ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION COMPETITION; DATA SETS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; IFN/ENIT-DATABASE; RECOGNITION RATES; RESEARCH CENTER; RESEARCH GROUPS; TEXT RECOGNITION;

BENCHMARKING; DATABASE SYSTEMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355169306     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.287     Document Type: Conference Paper

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