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 …

Machine simulation of human reading has been the subject of intensive research for almost
three decades. A large number of research papers and reports have already been published …

Research work on Arabic optical text recognition (AOTR), although lagging that of other
languages, is becoming more intensive than before and commercial systems for AOTR are …

Off-line recognition requires transferring the text under consideration into an image file. This
represents the only available solution to bring the printed materials to the electronic media …

The problem addressed in this study is the offline recognition of handwritten Arabic city
names. The names are assumed to belong to a fixed lexicon of about 1,000 entries. A state …

Researches on handwriting recognition have known a great attention since it has been
considered as a technological revolution in man-machines interfaces especially that …

Software development is a highly collaborative activity that requires teams of developers to
continually manage and coordinate their programming tasks. In this paper, we describe an …

A statistical approach for the recognition of Arabic characters is introduced. As a first step,
the character is segmented into primary and secondary parts (dots and zigzags). The …

Character recognition has served as one of the principal proving grounds for neural network
methods and has emerged as one of the most successful applications of this technology. In …

Handwriting recognition is one of the challenging tasks in the area of pattern recognition and
machine learning. Handwriting recognition has two flavors, namely, Offline Handwriting …