• DocumentCode
    2173059
  • Title

    Segmentation of Arabic cursive script

  • Author

    Motawa, Deya ; Amin, Adnan ; Sabourin, Robert

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of New South Wales, NSW, Australia
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    1997
  • fDate
    18-20 Aug 1997
  • Firstpage
    625
  • Abstract
    The main theme of the paper is the automatic segmentation of Arabic words using mathematical morphology tools. The proposed algorithm has been tested with a set of Arabic words written by different writers, ranging from poor to acceptable quality. The initial experimental results are very encouraging and promising
  • Keywords
    handwriting recognition; image segmentation; mathematical morphology; natural languages; word processing; Arabic cursive script segmentation; Arabic words; handwriting analysis; mathematical morphology tools; Australia; Character recognition; Computer science; Handwriting recognition; Humans; Morphology; Office automation; Shape; Testing; Writing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Ulm
  • Print_ISBN
    0-8186-7898-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICDAR.1997.620580
  • Filename
    620580