Online Arabic handwriting recognition: A survey

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 209-226

  Tagougui, Najiba ^a   Kherallah, Monji ^a   Alimi, Adel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Cursive script; Handwriting recognition; Online recognition; Written Arabic language

Indexed keywords

ARABIC LANGUAGES; CURSIVE SCRIPT; FUTURE RESEARCH DIRECTIONS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; ON-LINE RECOGNITION; ONLINE ARABIC HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; RECORDING INFORMATION; TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION;

RESEARCH; SURVEYS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84881617410     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-012-0186-8     Document Type: Article

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