Automated system for arabic optical character recognition with lookup dictionary

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 362-370

  Aljarrah, Inad ^a   Al Khaleel, Osama ^a   Mhaidat, Khaldoon ^a   Alrefai, Mu'Ath ^a   Alzu'Bi, Abdullah ^a   Rabab'Ah, Mohammad ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Arabic characters; Arabic OCR; Image processing; Recognition; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873548297     PISSN: 17980461     EISSN: 17998859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4304/jetwi.4.4.362-370     Document Type: Conference Paper

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