DocumentCode
3356381
Title
A new comprehensive database of handwritten Arabic words, numbers, and signatures used for OCR testing
Author
Kharma, Nawwaf ; Ahmed, Maher ; Ward, Rabab
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Volume
2
fYear
1999
fDate
9-12 May 1999
Firstpage
766
Abstract
This paper describes the formation of a comprehensive database of handwritten Arabic words, numbers, and signature, for use in optical character recognition research related to the Arabic language. So far no such (freely or commercially available) database exists.
Keywords
optical character recognition; visual databases; Arabic language; OCR testing; handwritten Arabic number database; handwritten Arabic signature database; handwritten Arabic word database; optical character recognition research; Application software; Character recognition; Databases; Handwriting recognition; Image storage; Internet; Optical character recognition software; Software quality; Software testing; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
ISSN
0840-7789
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5579-2
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CCECE.1999.808042
Filename
808042
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