Work on the problem of handwritten text recognition in Urdu script has been an active
research area. A significant progress is made in this interesting and challenging field in the …

We survey the optical character recognition (OCR) literature with reference to the Urdu-like
cursive scripts. In particular, the Urdu, Pushto, and Sindhi languages are discussed, with the …

Handwriting Recognition Technology has been improving much under the purview of
pattern recognition and image processing since a few decades. This paper focuses on the …

Urdu is a complex language as it is an amalgam of many South Asian and East Asian
languages; hence, its character recognition is a huge and difficult task. It is a bidirectional …

Pashto scripts are cursive in nature and hard to recognize in real-time. Native speakers of
the Pashto language are large in numbers and reside in different regions of the world. Due …

Urdu script-based languages' character recognition has some technical issues not existing
in other languages and makes these languages more complicated. Segmentation-based …

An offline handwriting recognition system for Urdu, a language with a user base of 200
Million and written in Nastaleeq script, has been a challenge for the research community …

Since the Urdu language has more isolated letters than Arabic and Farsi, a research on
Urdu handwritten word is desired. This is a novel approach to use the compound features …

Urdu Language is written in Nastalique writing style, which is highly cursive, context
sensitive and is difficult to process as only the last character in its ligature resides on the …

Urdu language is written using Arabic script in Nastalique writing style. Nastalique script is
highly cursive, context sensitive and is hard to process as only the last character in its …