The automatic recognition of text on scanned images has enabled many applications such
as searching for words in large volumes of documents, automatic sorting of postal mail, and …

Research in offline Arabic handwriting recognition has increased considerably in the past
few years. This is evident from the numerous research results published recently in major …

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a topic of interest for many years. It is
defined as the process of digitizing a document image into its constituent characters. Despite …

In this paper we are presenting a new database with handwritten Arabic town/village names.
For each name the ground truth information, eg the sequence of character shapes, some …

US8595222B2 - Methods and systems for representing, using and displaying time-varying
information on the semantic web - Google Patents US8595222B2 - Methods and systems for …

A comprehensive Arabic handwritten text database is an essential resource for Arabic
handwritten text recognition research. This is especially true due to the lack of such …

Machine simulation of human reading has been the subject of intensive research for almost
three decades. A large number of research papers and reports have already been published …

Off-line recognition requires transferring the text under consideration into an image file. This
represents the only available solution to bring the printed materials to the electronic media …

We present an omnifont, unlimited-vocabulary OCR system for English and Arabic. The
system is based on hidden Markov models (HMM), an approach that has proven to be very …

This paper describes an effort towards the development of Arabic cheque databases for
research in the recognition of hand-written Arabic cheques. Databases of real-life Arabic …