E-text watermarking: Utilizing 'Kashida' extensions in Arabic language electronic writing

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 48-55

  Gutub, Adnan Abdul Aziz ^a   Al Haidari, Fahd ^a   Al Kahsah, Khalid M ^a   Hamodi, Jamil ^a  

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

Author keywords

Arabic text; Cryptography; Feature coding; Information security; Steganography; Text watermarking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857940291     PISSN: 17980461     EISSN: 17998859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jetwi.2.1.48-55     Document Type: Article

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