Off-line Handwritten Arabic Character Recognition : A Survey

The automatic recognition of text on scanned images has several applications such as automatic postal mail sorting and searching in large volume of documents. Although Arabic handwritten text recognition has been addressed by many researchers, it remains a challenging task due to several factors. This paper presents an overview of off-line handwritten Arabic character recognition and summarizes the main technical challenges and characteristics of Arabic. It also investigates the relevant existing research carried out towards this perspective.

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