Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

Part I: Pre-Processing -- An Assessment of Arabic Handwriting Recognition Technology -- Layout Analysis of Arabic Script Documents -- A Multi-Stage Approach to Arabic Document Analysis -- Pre-Processing Issues in Arabic OCR -- Segmentation of Ancient Arabic Documents -- Features for HMM-Based Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Systems -- Part II: Recognition -- Printed Arabic Text Recognition -- Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition Using the IFN/ENIT-Database -- RWTH OCR: A Large Vocabulary Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Scripts -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition using Bernoulli HMMs -- Handwritten Farsi Words Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models -- Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks -- Application of Fractal Theory in Farsi/Arabic Document Analysis -- Multi-Stream Markov Models for Arabic Handwriting Recognition -- Towards Distributed Cursive Writing OCR Systems based on the Combination of Complementary Approaches -- Part III: Evaluation -- Data Collection and Annotation for Arabic Document Analysis -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competitions -- Benchmarking Strategy for Arabic Screen Rendered Word Recognition -- Part IV: Applications -- A Robust Word Spotting System for Historical Arabic Manuscripts -- Arabic Text recognition using a Script-Independent Methodology: A Unified HMM-based Approach for Machine-print and Handwritten Text -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using VDHMM and Over-Segmentation -- Online Arabic Databases and Applications -- Online Arabic Handwritten Words Recognition Based on HMM and Combination of Online and Offline Features -- Part I: Pre-Processing -- An Assessment of Arabic Handwriting Recognition Technology -- Layout Analysis of Arabic Script Documents -- A Multi-Stage Approach to Arabic Document Analysis -- Pre-Processing Issues in Arabic OCR -- Segmentation of Ancient Arabic Documents -- Features for HMM-Based Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Systems -- Part II: Recognition -- Printed Arabic Text Recognition -- Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition Using the IFN/ENIT-Database -- RWTH OCR: A Large Vocabulary Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Scripts -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition using Bernoulli HMMs -- Handwritten Farsi Words Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models -- Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks -- Application of Fractal Theory in Farsi/Arabic Document Analysis -- Multi-Stream Markov Models for Arabic Handwriting Recognition -- Towards Distributed Cursive Writing OCR Systems based on the Combination of Complementary Approaches -- Part III: Evaluation -- Data Collection and Annotation for Arabic Document Analysis -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competitions -- Benchmarking Strategy for Arabic Screen Rendered Word Recognition -- Part IV: Applications -- A Robust Word Spotting System for Historical Arabic Manuscripts -- Arabic Text recognition using a Script-Independent Methodology: A Unified HMM-based Approach for Machine-print and Handwritten Text -- Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using VDHMM and Over-Segmentation -- Online Arabic Databases and Applications -- Online Arabic Handwritten Words Recognition Based on HMM and Combination of Online and Offline Features.