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Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

By Sargur N. Srihari , Gregory Ball (auth.) , Volker Märgner , Haikal El Abed (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag London
Year
2012
ISBN
978-1-4471-4071-9, 978-1-4471-4072-6
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4471-4072-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
20 MB (20538124 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
592\592
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
Image Processing and Computer Vision; Document Pre

Description

This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

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