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 …

This paper introduces a pair of online and offline Chinese handwriting databases,
containing samples of isolated characters and handwritten texts. The samples were …

Arabic script based text recognition system has been a popular field of research for many
years that can be used in the learning and teaching process to the students and educators …

This paper describes the Online Arabic handwritingrecognition competition held at ICDAR
2009. This firstcompetition uses the ADAB-database with Arabic onlinehandwritten words …

The recognition of cursive script is regarded as a subtle task in optical character recognition
due to its varied representation. Every cursive script has different nature and associated …

The recognition of Indian and Arabic handwriting is drawing increasing attention in recent
years. To test the promise of existing handwritten numeral recognition methods and provide …

This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2007.
This second competition (the first was at ICDAR 2005) again uses the IFN/ENIT-database …

Preprocessing is the most important stage in the Arabic OCR system; it has a direct effect on
the reliability and efficiency of the segmentation and feature extraction stages. It is worth …

Even though a lot of researches have been conducted in order to solve the problem of
unconstrained handwriting recognition, an effective solution is still a serious challenge. In …

Preprocessing and feature extraction are very important steps in automatic cursive
handwritten word recognition. Based on an offline recognition system for Arabic handwritten …