Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

Part I: Pre-Processing An Assessment of Arabic Handwriting Recognition Technology Sargur N. Srihari and Gregory Ball Layout Analysis of Arabic Script Documents Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait and Thomas M. Breuel A Multi-Stage Approach to Arabic Document Analysis Eugene Borovikov and Ilya Zavorin Pre-Processing Issues in Arabic OCR Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur and Venu Govindaraju Segmentation of Ancient Arabic Documents Abdel Belaid and Nazih Ouwayed Features for HMM-Based Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Systems Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Ramy Al Hajj Mohammad, Chafic Mokbel, Fares Menasri, Anne-Laure Bianne-Bernard and Christopher Kermorvant Part II: Recognition Printed Arabic Text Recognition Irfan Ahmed, Sabri A. Mahmoud and Mohammed Tanvir Parvez Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition Using the IFN/ENIT-Database Mario Pechwitz, Haikal El Abed and Volker Margner RWTH OCR: A Large Vocabulary Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Scripts Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Georg Heigold and Hermann Ney Arabic Handwriting Recognition using Bernoulli HMMs Ihab Alkhoury, Adria Gimenez and Alfons Juan Handwritten Farsi Words Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models Puntis Jifroodian and Ching Y. Suen Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks Alex Graves Application of Fractal Theory in Farsi/Arabic Document Analysis Saeed Mozaffari Multi-Stream Markov Models for Arabic Handwriting Recognition Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet and AbdelMajid Ben Hamadou Towards Distributed Cursive Writing OCR Systems based on the Combination of Complementary Approaches Maher Khemakhem and Abdelfettah Belghith Part III: Evaluation Data Collection and Annotation for Arabic Document Analysis Ilya Zavorin and Eugene Borovikov Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competitions Volker Margner and Haikal El Abed Benchmarking Strategy for Arabic Screen Rendered Word Recognition Fouad Slimane, Slim Kanoun, Jean Hennebert, Rolf Ingold, Adel M. Alimi and Jean Hennebert Part IV: Applications A Robust Word Spotting System for Historical Arabic Manuscripts Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam Arabic Text recognition using a Script-Independent Methodology: A Unified HMM-based Approach for Machine-print and Handwritten Text Premkumar Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Huaigu Cao, Krishna Subramanian, Shirin Saleem, David Belanger, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Matin Kamali and Ehry MacRostie Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using VDHMM and Over-Segmentation Amlan Kundu and Tom Hines Online Arabic Databases and Applications Houcine Boubaker, Abdelkarim Elbaati, Najiba Tagougui, Haikal El Abed, Monji Kherallah and Adel M. Alimi Online Arabic Handwritten Words Recognition Based on HMM and Combination of Online and Offline Features Sherif Abdelazeem, Hesham M. Eraqi and Hany Ahmed