Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Märgner, Volker (Editor), El Abed, Haikal (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Text processing (Computer science).; Image processing.; Pattern recognition.; Computer Science.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Pattern Recognition.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a key technology enabling access to digital text data. This technique is especially valuable for Arabic scripts, for which there has been very little digital access. Arabic script is widely used today. It is estimated that approximately 200 million people use A...