Hand printed Arabic character recognition system

The paper proposes a structural technique for automatic recognition of hand printed Arabic characters. The advantages of this technique are: more efficient for large and complex sets such as Arabic characters; not expensive for feature extraction; and its execution time does not depend on either the font or the size of the characters. The algorithm was implemented on a microcomputer and tested by 10 different users. The recognition rate obtained was about 90%.

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