Arabic Optical Text Recognition: A Classified Bibliography
Asim A.-F. Nabawi, Sabri A. Mahmoud · ERJ Engineering Research Journal · 2000
A classified bibliography and a lexicographically-indexed table of 260items of literature pertaining to the optical recognition of Arabic texts, includingHindi numerals' recognition, are provided. The lim number items cited in thisbibliography highlights two points. First, the difficulties facing researchers incollecting dispersed references pertinent to this research area, which was in the firstplace a major incentive to working on this paper. Second, the limited efforts andresources expended in promoting this branch of research, evident from comparingthe volumes of reported OCR research works and products on Latin and otherlanguages with those on Arabic. A keyword-based classification scheme whoseresults may help in locating papers of interest in a certain research subtopic isimplemented. An appendix provides a classified table highlighting the features ofeach of the included literature items, offering a glimpse of an overall picture.