Title :
A new comprehensive database of handwritten Arabic words, numbers, and signatures used for OCR testing
Author :
Kharma, Nawwaf ; Ahmed, Maher ; Ward, Rabab
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., British Columbia Univ., Vancouver, BC, Canada
Abstract :
This paper describes the formation of a comprehensive database of handwritten Arabic words, numbers, and signature, for use in optical character recognition research related to the Arabic language. So far no such (freely or commercially available) database exists.
Keywords :
optical character recognition; visual databases; Arabic language; OCR testing; handwritten Arabic number database; handwritten Arabic signature database; handwritten Arabic word database; optical character recognition research; Application software; Character recognition; Databases; Handwriting recognition; Image storage; Internet; Optical character recognition software; Software quality; Software testing; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Electrical and Computer Engineering, 1999 IEEE Canadian Conference on
Conference_Location :
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5579-2
DOI :
10.1109/CCECE.1999.808042
