Omnifont Arabic optical character recognition system

Author

Kurdy, Mhd Bassam ; AlSabbagh, Mhd Monir

Author_Institution

HIAST, Damascus, Syria

fYear

2004

fDate

19-23 April 2004

Firstpage

469

Lastpage

470

Abstract

Optical character recognition systems (OCR) contribute tremendously to the advancement of office automation, provide an easy to use man-machine interface. The solution used in this paper for the problem of Arabic character recognition is insensitive to scale, slight distortions (rotation and misalignment) and limited noise. An image reconstruction is used to segment the connected and overlapping Arabic characters. The program also traces tables and column automatically. The system is implemented on PC platform and has a simple and user friendly graphical interface under Windows operating system.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; human computer interaction; image reconstruction; office automation; operating systems (computers); optical character recognition; OCR; PC platform; Windows operating system; character segmentation; image reconstruction; man-machine interface; office automation; omnifont Arabic optical character recognition system; user friendly graphical interface; Character recognition; Educational institutions; Image reconstruction; Image segmentation; Office automation; Optical character recognition software; Optical distortion; Project management; Reconnaissance; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8482-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2004.1307835

Filename

1307835