Arabic Font Recognition Based on Discret Curvelet Transform

There are many difficulties for Arabic text recognition systems to deal with multi-font and multi-size word/text line images. Some Arabic font families introduce complex variability such as overlaps and ligatures. In this case, developing a cascading system (font recognition followed by font dependent text recognition) has become a necessity. In this paper, we have presented a new font recognition system based on curvelet transform.

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