Template Matching Method for Recognition Musnad Characters Based on Correlation Analysis
Mohammed A. Qatran · 2011
Because of the historical significance of the Musnad alphabet, which is considered the basic of the modern Arabic language, the recognition of Musnad characters is necessary to study the history of Arabic language development stages. Much research has been done on the identification of English, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean characters. It is observed that the research on recognition of Musnad characters is still an open research problem. In this paper, an attempt has been made to develop a simple and efficient method for the recognition of Musnad characters. The present method is based on template matching where a character is identified by analyzing its shape and comparing its features that distinguish each character. Experimental results show the relatively high accuracy of the developed method when it is tested on all size characters.