ICDAR2013 competition on multi-font and multi-size digitally represented arabic text

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1433-1437

  Slimane, Fouad ^a,b   Kanoun, Slim ^b   El Abed, Haikal ^c   Alimi, Adel M ^b   Ingold, Rolf ^a   Hennebert, Jean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

APTI Database; Arabic Text; Competition; OCR System; Ultra Low Resolution

Indexed keywords

ARABIC TEXTS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; FOUR-GROUP; MULTI SIZES; OCR SYSTEMS; PRINTED TEXTS; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; WASHINGTON;

COMPETITION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84889596119     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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