The optical character recognition of Urdu-like cursive scripts

S Naz, K Hayat, MI Razzak, MW Anwar, SA Madani… - Pattern Recognition, 2014 - Elsevier
We survey the optical character recognition (OCR) literature with reference to the Urdu-like
cursive scripts. In particular, the Urdu, Pushto, and Sindhi languages are discussed, with the …

A comprehensive survey on on-line handwriting recognition technology and its real application to the Nepalese natural handwriting

KC Santosh, C Nattee - Kathmandu University Journal of Science …, 2009 - inria.hal.science
Handwriting Recognition Technology has been improving much under the purview of
pattern recognition and image processing since a few decades. This paper focuses on the …

Urdu handwritten text recognition: a survey

M Husnain, MM Saad Missen, S Mumtaz… - IET Image …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Work on the problem of handwritten text recognition in Urdu script has been an active
research area. A significant progress is made in this interesting and challenging field in the …

A convolutional recursive deep architecture for unconstrained Urdu handwriting recognition

N ul Sehr Zia, MF Naeem, SMK Raza, MM Khan… - Neural Computing and …, 2022 - Springer
An offline handwriting recognition system for Urdu, a language with a user base of 200
Million and written in Nastaleeq script, has been a challenge for the research community …

Recognition and classification of handwritten urdu numerals using deep learning techniques

A Bhatti, A Arif, W Khalid, B Khan, A Ali, S Khalid… - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Urdu is a complex language as it is an amalgam of many South Asian and East Asian
languages; hence, its character recognition is a huge and difficult task. It is a bidirectional …

HMM and fuzzy logic: a hybrid approach for online Urdu script-based languages' character recognition

MI Razzak, F Anwar, SA Husain, A Belaid… - Knowledge-Based …, 2010 - Elsevier
Urdu script-based languages' character recognition has some technical issues not existing
in other languages and makes these languages more complicated. Segmentation-based …

Real-time pashto handwritten character recognition using salient geometric and spectral features

M Shabir, N Islam, Z Jan, I Khan, T Rahman… - IEEE …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Pashto scripts are cursive in nature and hard to recognize in real-time. Native speakers of
the Pashto language are large in numbers and reside in different regions of the world. Due …

Holistic Urdu handwritten word recognition using support vector machine

MW Sagheer, CL He, N Nobile… - 2010 20th international …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since the Urdu language has more isolated letters than Arabic and Farsi, a research on
Urdu handwritten word is desired. This is a novel approach to use the compound features …

Segmentation based urdu nastalique ocr

ST Javed, S Hussain - Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis …, 2013 - Springer
Urdu Language is written in Nastalique writing style, which is highly cursive, context
sensitive and is difficult to process as only the last character in its ligature resides on the …

Improving Nastalique specific pre-recognition process for Urdu OCR

ST Javed, S Hussain - 2009 IEEE 13th International Multitopic …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Urdu language is written using Arabic script in Nastalique writing style. Nastalique script is
highly cursive, context sensitive and is hard to process as only the last character in its …