Offline Arabic handwritten text recognition: a survey

MT Parvez, SA Mahmoud - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 2013 - dl.acm.org
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 …

KHATT: An open Arabic offline handwritten text database

SA Mahmoud, I Ahmad, WG Al-Khatib, M Alshayeb… - Pattern Recognition, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Arabic handwriting recognition using structural and syntactic pattern attributes

MT Parvez, SA Mahmoud - Pattern Recognition, 2013 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present research results on off-line Arabic handwriting recognition using
structural techniques. Statistical methods have been more common in the reported research …

Arabic information retrieval

K Darwish, W Magdy - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2014 - nowpublishers.com
In the past several years, Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) has garnered significant attention.
The main research interests have focused on retrieval of formal language, mostly in the …

Offline handwritten Arabic cursive text recognition using Hidden Markov Models and re-ranking

JH AlKhateeb, J Ren, J Jiang, H Al-Muhtaseb - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2011 - Elsevier
Recognition of handwritten Arabic cursive texts is a complex task due to the similarities
between letters under different writing styles. In this paper, a word-based off-line recognition …

Open-vocabulary recognition of machine-printed Arabic text using hidden Markov models

I Ahmad, SA Mahmoud, GA Fink - Pattern recognition, 2016 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present multi-font printed Arabic text recognition using hidden Markov
models (HMMs). We propose a novel approach to the sliding window technique for feature …

Statistical script independent word spotting in offline handwritten documents

S Wshah, G Kumar, V Govindaraju - Pattern Recognition, 2014 - Elsevier
We propose a statistical script independent line based word spotting framework for offline
handwritten documents based on Hidden Markov Models. We propose and compare an …

[PDF][PDF] Handwriting recognition in historical documents

A Fischer - 2012 - researchgate.net
This thesis investigates pattern recognition methods for handwriting recognition in historical
documents. The aim of these methods is to automatically extract textual content from …

Flying communication server in case of a largescale disaster

T Kobayashi, H Matsuoka… - 2016 IEEE 40th Annual …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have developed a Flying Communication Server, which is a drone, unmanned aerial
vehicle (UAV), equipped with a single board computer implemented in a Wi-Fi base station …

Integrating natural language processing with image document analysis: what we learned from two real-world applications

J Chen, H Cao, P Natarajan - International Journal on Document Analysis …, 2015 - Springer
Automatically accessing information from unconstrained image documents has important
applications in business and government operations. These real-world applications typically …