Strategies for visual arabic handwriting recognition: Issues and case study
Mohamed Cheriet · 2007
Automatic recognition of Arabic handwritten text is a problem worth solving; it gained more and more interest in recent years, for various reasons. In this paper we address the most frequently encountered problems when dealing with Arabic handwriting recognition and we briefly present lessons learnt from several serious attempts that have been undertaken in this regard. We give a summary of techniques concerning Arabic handwriting recognition research. We will end by a case study, recognition of Tunisian city names, emphasizing on visual-based strategies for Arabic handwriting recognition (AHR).