Arabic handwritten: pre-processing and segmentation

Makki Maliki; Sabah Jassim; Naseer Al-Jawad; Harin Sellahewa

doi:10.1117/12.917555

8 May 2012 Arabic handwritten: pre-processing and segmentation

Makki Maliki, Sabah Jassim, Naseer Al-Jawad, Harin Sellahewa

Proceedings Volume 8406, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2012; 84060D (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.917555
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

This paper is concerned with pre-processing and segmentation tasks that influence the performance of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems and handwritten/printed text recognition. In Arabic, these tasks are adversely effected by the fact that many words are made up of sub-words, with many sub-words there associated one or more diacritics that are not connected to the sub-word's body; there could be multiple instances of sub-words overlap. To overcome these problems we investigate and develop segmentation techniques that first segment a document into sub-words, link the diacritics with their sub-words, and removes possible overlapping between words and sub-words. We shall also investigate two approaches for pre-processing tasks to estimate sub-words baseline, and to determine parameters that yield appropriate slope correction, slant removal. We shall investigate the use of linear regression on sub-words pixels to determine their central x and y coordinates, as well as their high density part. We also develop a new incremental rotation procedure to be performed on sub-words that determines the best rotation angle needed to realign baselines. We shall demonstrate the benefits of these proposals by conducting extensive experiments on publicly available databases and in-house created databases. These algorithms help improve character segmentation accuracy by transforming handwritten Arabic text into a form that could benefit from analysis of printed text.

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Makki Maliki, Sabah Jassim, Naseer Al-Jawad, and Harin Sellahewa "Arabic handwritten: pre-processing and segmentation", Proc. SPIE 8406, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2012, 84060D (8 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.917555

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