The paper is a comprehensive review of the current research trends in the area of Arabic
language especially state-of-the-art approaches to highlight the current status of diverse …

This paper proposes a preprocessing stage to augment the bank of features that one can
retrieve from binary images to help increase the accuracy of pattern recognition algorithms …

The Arabic language is one of the major languages that has little attention in character
recognition field by Arab researchers in particular and foreign researchers in general. Due to …

Arabic handwriting recognition and conversion are crucial for financial operations,
particularly for processing handwritten amounts on cheques and financial documents …

Arabic language has been one of the major languages that have little attention in this field of
research by Arab researchers in particular and foreign researchers in general. Due to the …

Word extraction is one of the most critical steps in handwritten recognition systems. It is
challenging for many reasons, such as the variability of handwritten writing styles, touching …

Segmentation of words from handwritten text lines is one of the most important and
challenging prerequisites of the handwritten optical character recognition (HOCR) system. In …

Handwriting recognition in the Arabic language is considered one of the most challenging
problems and the accuracies in recognizing still need more enhancements due to the Arabic …

Mathematical morphology has been of a great significance to several scientific fields.
Dilation, as one of the fundamental operations, has been very much reliant on the common …

In this paper, we present a new bottom up segmentation method of handwritten Arabic texts
into text lines. The proposed method uses the algorithm for construction of the Outer Isothetic …