End-Shape Recognition for Arabic Handwritten Text Segmentation [chapter]

Amani T. Jamal, Nicola Nobile, Ching Y. Suen
2014 Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Text segmentation is an essential pre-processing stage for many systems such as text recognition and word spotting. However, few methods have been published for Arabic text segmentation. In Arabic handwritten documents, separating text into words is challenging due to the enormous different Arabic handwriting styles. In this paper, we present a new segmentation methodology of an Arabic handwritten text line into words. Our proposed approach of text segmentation utilizes the knowledge of Arabic
more » ... riting characteristics. This method shows promising results.
doi:10.1007/978-3-319-11656-3_21 fatcat:r74agajthrbkbfw3rglukfeowm