Thinning Arabic characters for feature extraction

Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Visualisation

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 181-185

  Cowell, John ^a   Hussain, Fiaz ^b  

^a DE MONTFORT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Dubai Business School   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

Arabic; Characters; Ocr; Optical character recognition; Thinning; Urdu

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; VISUALIZATION;

ARABIC; ARABIC CHARACTERS; CHARACTERS; RECOGNITION PROCESS; SYNTACTIC RECOGNITION; THINNING; THINNING PROCESS; URDU;

EXTRACTION;

EID: 84949200515     PISSN: 10939547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IV.2001.942056     Document Type: Conference Paper

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