Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

Märgner, Volker; El Abed, Haikal

This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2014-08-09

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781447159766

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-4072-6

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 592