Title
Printed Arabic Optical Character Segmentation
Abstract
A considerable progress in recognition techniques for many non-Arabic characters has been achieved. In contrary, few efforts have been put on the research of Arabic characters. In any Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system the segmentation step is usually the essential stage in which an extensive portion of processing is devoted and a considerable share of recognition errors is attributed. In this research, a novel segmentation approach for machine Arabic printed text with diacritics is proposed. The proposed method reduces computation, errors, gives a clear description for the sub-word and has advantages over using the skeleton approach in which the data and information of the character can be lost. Both of initial evaluation and testing of the proposed method have been developed using MATLAB and shows 98.7% promising results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1117/12.2083587
IMAGE PROCESSING: ALGORITHMS AND SYSTEMS XIII
Keywords
Field
DocType
Optical Character Recognition, Arabic characters, segmentation, recognition, machine Arabic printed text
MATLAB,Arabic,Computer science,Segmentation,Document processing,Arabic characters,Optical character recognition,Speech recognition,Image segmentation,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9399
0277-786X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Khader Mohammad1135.22
muna ayyesh200.34
Aziz Qaroush3106.86
Iyad Tumar4224.77