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 …

Due to the ever-growing powers in sensing, computing, communicating and storing, mobile
devices (eg, smartphone, smartwatch, smart glasses) become ubiquitous and an …

A comprehensive Arabic handwritten text database is an essential resource for Arabic
handwritten text recognition research. This is especially true due to the lack of such …

Since their first inception more than half a century ago, automatic reading systems have
evolved substantially, thereby showing impressive performance on machine-printed text …

This study aims at building an efficient word recognition system resulting from the
combination of three handwriting recognizers. The main component of this combined system …

Recognition of cursive handwritten Arabic text is a difficult problem because of context-
sensitive character shapes, the non-uniform spacing between words and within a word …

Recognition of handwritten Arabic cursive texts is a complex task due to the similarities
between letters under different writing styles. In this paper, a word-based off-line recognition …

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 …

Developing a standard database for offline handwriting recognition is an essential task. This
paper offers a novel comprehensive database for conducting research on offline Persian …

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 …