Database of handwritten Arabic mathematical formulas images [article]

Ibtissem Hadj Ali, Mohammed Ali Mahjoub
2016 arXiv   pre-print
Although publicly available, ground-truthed database have proven useful for training, evaluating, and comparing recognition systems in many domains, the availability of such database for handwritten Arabic mathematical formula recognition in particular, is currently quite poor. In this paper, we present a new public database that contains mathematical expressions available in their off-line handwritten form. Here, we describe the different steps that allowed us to acquire this database, from
more » ... creation of the mathematical expression corpora to the transcription of the collected data. Currently, the dataset contains 4 238 off-line handwritten mathematical expressions written by 66 writers and 20 300 handwritten isolated symbol images. The ground truth is also provided for the handwritten expressions as XML files with the number of symbols, and the MATHML structure.
arXiv:1608.02388v1 fatcat:siujs7wbd5gddar25j3wknd5ru