The automatic recognition of text on scanned images has enabled many applications such
as searching for words in large volumes of documents, automatic sorting of postal mail, and …

This paper describes the Online Arabic handwritingrecognition competition held at ICDAR
2009. This firstcompetition uses the ADAB-database with Arabic onlinehandwritten words …

In this paper, we present an example-based facial sketch system. Our system automatically
generates a sketch from an input image, by learning from example sketches drawn with a …

Off-line recognition of text play a significant role in several application such as the automatic
sorting of postal mail or editing old documents. It is the ability of the computer to distinguish …

Abstract Hidden Markov Models (HMM) have been used with some success in recognising
printed Arabic words. In this paper, a complete scheme for unconstrained Arabic handwritten …

Automatic handwriting recognition has a variety of applications in real world problems, such
as mail sorting and check processing. Recently, it has been demonstrated that combining …

This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009.
This third competition (the first two were held at ICDAR 2005 and 2007, respectively) again …

We propose a novel algorithm for the segmentation and prerecognition of offline handwritten
Arabic text. Our character segmentation method over-segments each word, and then …

The typical Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems, regardless the character's nature,
are based mainly on three stages, preprocessing, features extraction and discrimination …

In this paper, we present a general model for Arabic bank check processing indicating the
major phases of a check processing system. We then survey the available databases for …