Arabic script based language character recognition: Nasta´liq vs Naskh analysis

Author

Naz, Sabiha ; Hayat, K. ; Razzak, Muhammad Imran ; Anwar, Muhammad Waqas ; Akbar, Habib

Author_Institution

COMSATS Inst. of Inf. Technol., Abbottabad, Pakistan

fYear

2013

fDate

22-24 June 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

Arabic and various Indic scripts received researcher attention after a long time of focus on East Asian and Western whereas this script is used by 1/4th of the world population by many languages in several countries. Arabic script is more complex as compared to Latin script. One of such difficulty with Arabic script is multiple writing styles. Naskh and Nastaliq are the two most commonly style adopted by Arabic script based languages. This paper compares both writing style and concludes that why work done for Naskh cannot be applied for Nasta´liq writing style.

Keywords

character recognition; natural language processing; Arabic script based language character recognition; Indic scripts; Latin script; Naskh analysis; Nasta´liq analysis; multiple writing styles; Asia; Character recognition; Complexity theory; Histograms; Optical character recognition software; Shape; Writing; Arabic script OCR; Naskh; Nasta´liq; Optical Character Recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (WCCIT), 2013 World Congress on

Conference_Location

Sousse

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0460-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCCIT.2013.6618740

Filename

6618740