Research in offline Arabic handwriting recognition has increased considerably in the past
few years. This is evident from the numerous research results published recently in major …

ABSTRACT Building a robust Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for languages,
such as Arabic with cursive scripts, has always been challenging. These challenges …

The goal of this paper is to present an efficient novel baseline estimation method for Arabic
handwritten text based on the exploited components of Voronoi Diagrams (VD). The …

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an important task with the rapid growth of the digital
computers, online information services, PDAs and for conversion of text documents into …

The Voronoi Diagram (VD) is defined as a rediscovered mathematical concept from the 19th
century. It is one of the most fundamental and useful constructions, defined by irregular …

Segmenting Arabic characters is one of the challenging and tedious tasks in the character
recognition process. This work proposes an approach to construct Arabic characters …

Automatic baseline detection of handwritten Arabic words is a crucial task for OCR. It is
extensively used in many preprocessing processes such as text normalization, skew/slant …

Word segmentation is an important task for many methods that are related to document
understanding especially word spotting and word recognition. Several approaches of word …

Preprocessing is a very important part of cursive languages Optical Character Recognition
(OCR) systems. Thus, baseline detection, which is one of the main parts of the …

In this paper, a preprocessing model for hand-written Arabic text on the basis of the Voronoi
Diagrams (VDs) is presented and discussed. The proposed VD-based pre-processing …