A survey on Arabic character segmentation

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 105-126

  Alginahi, Yasser M ^a  

^a TAIBAH UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabic character segmentation; Arabic OCR; Arabic OCR software; Cursive script; Off line recognition

Indexed keywords

ARABIC CHARACTER RECOGNITION; ARABIC CHARACTER SEGMENTATIONS; ARABIC OCR; ARABIC OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CHINESE CHARACTERS; CURSIVE SCRIPT; MISCLASSIFICATIONS; OFF-LINE RECOGNITION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

SURVEYS;

EID: 84878063562     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-012-0188-6     Document Type: Review

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