• DocumentCode
    2013423
  • Title

    Two Approaches for Arabic Script Recognition-Based Segmentation Using the Hough Transform

  • Author

    Touj, S. ; Ben Amara, Najoua Essoukri ; Amiri, Hamid

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. Superieur d´Informatique, Tunis
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    23-26 Sept. 2007
  • Firstpage
    654
  • Lastpage
    658
  • Abstract
    The recognition of the cursive writing requires generally a segmentation procedure. This operation constitutes one of the major difficulties of all OCR systems. The research of an ideal segmentation process of a word into letters is Utopian. In this paper we propose two segmentation-by-recognition techniques for cursive printed Arabic recognition based on Hough transform.
  • Keywords
    Hough transforms; image segmentation; optical character recognition; Arabic script recognition-based segmentation; Hough transform; OCR systems; Utopian letter; cursive writing recognition; Character recognition; Hidden Markov models; Image edge detection; Optical character recognition software; Optical sensors; Pattern recognition; Shape; Vocabulary; Voting; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007. ICDAR 2007. Ninth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Parana
  • ISSN
    1520-5363
  • Print_ISBN
    978-0-7695-2822-9
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4376996
  • Filename
    4376996