Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

<p><p>Part I: Pre-Processing</p><p><p>An Assessment of Arabic Handwriting Recognition Technology<br>Sargur N. Srihari and Gregory Ball</p><p><p>Layout Analysis of Arabic Script Documents<br>Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait and Thomas M. Breuel</p><p><p>A Multi-Stage Approach to Arabic Document Analysis<br>Eugene Borovikov and Ilya Zavorin</p><p><p>Pre-Processing Issues in Arabic OCR<br>Zhixin Shi, Srirangaraj Setlur and Venu Govindaraju</p><p><p>Segmentation of Ancient Arabic Documents<br>Abdel Belaïd and Nazih Ouwayed</p><p><p>Features for HMM-Based Arabic Handwritten Word Recognition Systems<br>Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Ramy Al Hajj Mohammad, Chafic Mokbel, Fares Menasri, Anne-Laure Bianne-Bernard and Christopher Kermorvant</p><p><p>Part II: Recognition</p><p><p>Printed Arabic Text Recognition<br>Irfan Ahmed, Sabri A. Mahmoud and Mohammed Tanvir Parvez</p><p><p>Handwritten Arabic Word Recognition Using the IFN/ENIT-Database<br>Mario Pechwitz, Haikal El Abed and Volker Märgner</p><p><p>RWTH OCR: A Large Vocabulary Optical Character Recognition System for Arabic Scripts<br>Philippe Dreuw, David Rybach, Georg Heigold and Hermann Ney</p><p><p>Arabic Handwriting Recognition using Bernoulli HMMs<br>Ihab Alkhoury, Adrià Giménez and Alfons Juan</p><p><p>Handwritten Farsi Words Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models<br>Puntis Jifroodian and Ching Y. Suen</p><p><p>Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks<br>Alex Graves</p><p><p>Application of Fractal Theory in Farsi/Arabic Document Analysis<br>Saeed Mozaffari</p><p><p>Multi-Stream Markov Models for Arabic Handwriting Recognition<br>Yousri Kessentini, Thierry Paquet and AbdelMajid Ben Hamadou</p><p><p>Towards Distributed Cursive Writing OCR Systems based on the Combination of Complementary Approaches<br>Maher Khemakhem and Abdelfettah Belghith</p><p><p>Part III: Evaluation</p><p><p>Data Collection and Annotation for Arabic Document Analysis<br>Ilya Zavorin and Eugene Borovikov</p><p><p>Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competitions<br>Volker Märgner and Haikal El Abed</p><p><p>Benchmarking Strategy for Arabic Screen Rendered Word Recognition<br>Fouad Slimane, Slim Kanoun, Jean Hennebert, Rolf Ingold, Adel M. Alimi and Jean Hennebert</p><p><p>Part IV: Applications</p><p><p>A Robust Word Spotting System for Historical Arabic Manuscripts<br>Mohamed Cheriet and Reza Farrahi Moghaddam</p><p><p>Arabic Text recognition using a Script-Independent Methodology: A Unified HMM-based Approach for Machine-print and Handwritten Text<br>Premkumar Natarajan, Rohit Prasad, Huaigu Cao, Krishna Subramanian, Shirin Saleem, David Belanger, Shiv Vitaladevuni, Matin Kamali and Ehry MacRostie</p><p><p>Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using VDHMM and Over-Segmentation<br>Amlan Kundu and Tom Hines</p><p><p>Online Arabic Databases and Applications<br>Houcine Boubaker, Abdelkarim Elbaati, Najiba Tagougui, Haikal El Abed, Monji Kherallah and Adel M. Alimi</p><p><p>Online Arabic Handwritten Words Recognition Based on HMM and Combination of Online and Offline Features<br>Sherif Abdelazeem, Hesham M. Eraqi and Hany Ahmed</p>