Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character …

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 …

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 …

According to statistics, there are 422 million speakers of the Arabic language. Islam is the
second-largest religion in the world, and its followers constitute approximately 25% of the …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we introduce a large scale dataset, called HKR, to address challenging
detection and recognition problems of handwritten Russian and Kazakh text in the scanned …

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 …

This paper describes a technique for automatic recognition of off-line printed Arabic text
using Hidden Markov Models. In this work different sizes of overlapping and non …

Handwriting has remained one of the most frequently occurring patterns that we come
across in everyday life. Handwriting offers a number of interesting pattern classification …