scholarly journals Recognition of Nastaliq Urdu Text using Multi-SVM

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 5665-5674

Optical Character Recognition has emerged as an attractive research field nowadays. Lot of work has been done in Urdu script based on various approaches and diverse methodologies have been put forward based on Nastaliq font style. Urdu is written diagonally from top to bottom, the style known as Nastaliq. This feature of Nastaliq makes Urdu highly cursive and more sensitive leading to a difficult recognition problem. Due to the peculiarities of Nastaliq Style of writing, we have chosen ligature as a basic unit of recognition in order to reduce the complexity of system. The accuracy rate of recognizing ligature in Urdu text corresponds to the efficiency with which the ligatures are segmented. In addition to extracting connected components, the ligature segmentation takes into consideration various factors like baseline information, height, width, and centroid. In this paper ligature Recognition is performed by using multi-SVM (Sup-port Vector Machine) approach which gives an accuracy of 97% when 903 text images are fed to it.

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Marina V. Polyakova ◽  
Alexandr G. Nesteryuk

Optical character recognition systems for the images are used to convert books and documents into electronic form, to automate accounting systems in business, when recognizing markers using augmented reality technologies and etс. The quality of optical character recognition, provided that binarization is applied, is largely determined by the quality of separation of the foreground pixels from the background. Methods of text image binarization are analyzed and insufficient quality of binarization is noted. As a way of research the minimum-distance classifier for the improvement of the existing method of binarization of color text images is used. To improve the quality of the binarization of color text images, it is advisable to divide image pixels into two classes, “Foreground” and “Background”, to use classification methods instead of heuristic threshold selection, namely, a minimum-distance classifier. To reduce the amount of processed information before applying the classifier, it is advisable to select blocks of pixels for subsequent processing. This was done by analyzing the connected components on the original image. An improved method of the color text image binarization with the use of analysis of connected components and minimum-distance classifier has been elaborated. The research of the elaborated method showed that it is better than existing binarization methods in terms of robustness of binarization, but worse in terms of the error of the determining the boundaries of objects. Among the recognition errors, the pixels of images from the class labeled “Foreground” were more often mistaken for the class labeled “Background”. The proposed method of binarization with the uniqueness of class prototypes is recommended to be used in problems of the processing of color images of the printed text, for which the error in determining the boundaries of characters as a result of binarization is compensated by the thickness of the letters. With a multiplicity of class prototypes, the proposed binarization method is recommended to be used in problems of processing color images of handwritten text, if high performance is not required. The improved binarization method has shown its efficiency in cases of slow changes in the color and illumination of the text and background, however, abrupt changes in color and illumination, as well as a textured background, do not allowing the binarization quality required for practical problems.


Author(s):  
Soumia Djaghbellou ◽  
Abderraouf Bouziane ◽  
Abdelouahab Attia ◽  
Zahid Akhtar

The optical character recognition (OCR) system is still an active research field in pattern recognition. Such systems can identify, recognize and distinguish electronically between characters and texts, printed or handwritten. They can also do a transformation of such data type into machine-processable form to facilitate the interaction between user and machine in various applications. In this paper, we present the global structure of an OCR system, with its types (on-line and off-line), categories (printed and handwritten) and its main steps. We also focused on off-line handwritten Arabic character recognition and provided a list of the main datasets publicly available. This paper also presents a survey of the works that have been carried out over recent years. Finally, some open issues and potential research directions have been highlighted


Author(s):  
Janarthanan A ◽  
Pandiyarajan C ◽  
Sabarinathan M ◽  
Sudhan M ◽  
Kala R

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of text recognition in images (one word). The input images are taken from the dataset. The collected text images are implemented to pre-processing. In pre-processing, we can implement the image resize process. Image resizing is necessary when you need to increase or decrease the total number of pixels, whereas remapping can occur when you are zooming refers to increase the quantity of pixels, so that when you zoom an image, you will see clear content. After that, we can implement the segmentation process. In segmentation, we can segment the each characters in one word. We can extract the features values from the image that means test feature. In classification process, we have to classify the text from the image. Image classification is performed the images in order to identify which image contains text. A classifier is used to identify the image containing text. The experimental results shows that the accuracy.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 0409
Author(s):  
Ali Et al.

            Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) are automatic inverse Turing tests, which are intended to differentiate between people and malicious computer programs. The mission of making good HIP system is a challenging issue, since the resultant HIP must be secure against attacks and in the same time it must be practical for humans. Text-based HIPs is one of the most popular HIPs types. It exploits the capability of humans to recite text images more than Optical Character Recognition (OCR), but the current text-based HIPs are not well-matched with rapid development of computer vision techniques, since they are either vey simply passed or very hard to resolve, thus this motivate that continuous efforts are required to improve the development of HIPs base text. In this paper, a new proposed scheme is designed for animated text-based HIP; this scheme exploits the gap between the usual perception of human and the ability of computer to mimic this perception and to achieve more secured and more human usable HIP. This scheme could prevent attacks since it's hard for the machine to distinguish characters with animation environment displayed by digital video, but it's certainly still easy and practical to be used by humans because humans are attuned to perceiving motion easily. The proposed scheme has been tested by many Optical Character Recognition applications, and it overtakes all these tests successfully and it achieves a high usability rate of 95%.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 0409
Author(s):  
Ali Et al.

            Human Interactive Proofs (HIPs) are automatic inverse Turing tests, which are intended to differentiate between people and malicious computer programs. The mission of making good HIP system is a challenging issue, since the resultant HIP must be secure against attacks and in the same time it must be practical for humans. Text-based HIPs is one of the most popular HIPs types. It exploits the capability of humans to recite text images more than Optical Character Recognition (OCR), but the current text-based HIPs are not well-matched with rapid development of computer vision techniques, since they are either vey simply passed or very hard to resolve, thus this motivate that continuous efforts are required to improve the development of HIPs base text. In this paper, a new proposed scheme is designed for animated text-based HIP; this scheme exploits the gap between the usual perception of human and the ability of computer to mimic this perception and to achieve more secured and more human usable HIP. This scheme could prevent attacks since it's hard for the machine to distinguish characters with animation environment displayed by digital video, but it's certainly still easy and practical to be used by humans because humans are attuned to perceiving motion easily. The proposed scheme has been tested by many Optical Character Recognition applications, and it overtakes all these tests successfully and it achieves a high usability rate of 95%.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 7968-7973
Author(s):  
M. Kazmi ◽  
F. Yasir ◽  
S. Habib ◽  
M. S. Hayat ◽  
S. A. Qazi

Urdu Optical Character Recognition (OCR) based on character level recognition (analytical approach) is less popular as compared to ligature level recognition (holistic approach) due to its added complexity, characters and strokes overlapping. This paper presents a holistic approach Urdu ligature extraction technique. The proposed Photometric Ligature Extraction (PLE) technique is independent of font size and column layout and is capable to handle non-overlapping and all inter and intra overlapping ligatures. It uses a customized photometric filter along with the application of X-shearing and padding with connected component analysis, to extract complete ligatures instead of extracting primary and secondary ligatures separately. A total of ~ 2,67,800 ligatures were extracted from scanned Urdu Nastaliq printed text images with an accuracy of 99.4%. Thus, the proposed framework outperforms the existing Urdu Nastaliq text extraction and segmentation algorithms. The proposed PLE framework can also be applied to other languages using the Nastaliq script style, languages such as Arabic, Persian, Pashto, and Sindhi.


Author(s):  
Md. Anwar Hossain ◽  
Sadia Afrin

This paper presents an innovative design for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) from text images by using the Template Matching method.OCR is an important research area and one of the most successful applications of technology in the field of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence.OCR provides full alphanumeric visualization of printed and handwritten characters by scanning text images and converts it into a corresponding editable text document. The main objective of this system prototype is to develop a prototype for the OCR system and to implement The Template Matching algorithm for provoking the system prototype. In this paper, we took alphabet (A-Z and a-z), and numbers (0-1), grayscale images, bitmap image format were used and recognized the alphabet and numbers by comparing between two images. Besides, we checked accuracy for different fonts of alphabet and numbers. Here we used Matlab R 2018 a software for the proper implementation of the system.


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-44
Author(s):  
Urmila Shrawankar ◽  
Shruti Gedam

Finger spelling in air helps user to operate a computer in order to make human interaction easier and faster than keyboard and touch screen. This article presents a real-time video based system which recognizes the English alphabets and words written in air using finger movements only. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is used for recognition which is trained using more than 500 various shapes and styles of all alphabets. This system works with different light situations and adapts automatically to various changing conditions; and gives a natural way of communicating where no extra hardware is used other than system camera and a bright color tape. Also, this system does not restrict writing speed and color of tape. Overall, this system achieves an average accuracy rate of character recognition for all alphabets of 94.074%. It is concluded that this system is very useful for communication with deaf and dumb people.


2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-289
Author(s):  
Mehvish Yasin ◽  
Naveen Kumar Gondhi

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has emerged as an interesting research field. Lot of work has been declared in Urdu script based on various approaches and diverse methodologies have been put forward on Nastaliq font style to get the desired output. The paper presents a survey on different techniques of OCR and ends up with the comparative analysis of Urdu character recognition based on accuracy and other performance parameters. This exploration directly implies that the nonpresence of Urdu OCR has restricted the idea on advanced Urdu library and thus, drives a pathway for enormous research in this field.


2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. i135-i141
Author(s):  
So Miyagawa ◽  
Kirill Bulert ◽  
Marco Büchler ◽  
Heike Behlmer

Abstract Digital Humanities (DH) within Coptic Studies, an emerging field of development, will be much aided by the digitization of large quantities of typeset Coptic texts. Until recently, the only Optical Character Recognition (OCR) analysis of printed Coptic texts had been executed by Moheb S. Mekhaiel, who used the Tesseract program to create a text model for liturgical books in the Bohairic dialect of Coptic. However, this model is not suitable for the many scholarly editions of texts in the Sahidic dialect of Coptic which use noticeably different fonts. In the current study, DH and Coptological projects based in Göttingen, Germany, collaborated to develop a new Coptic OCR pipeline suitable for use with all Coptic dialects. The objective of the study was to generate a model which can facilitate digital Coptic Studies and produce Coptic corpora from existing printed texts. First, we compared the two available OCR programs that can recognize Coptic: Tesseract and Ocropy. The results indicated that the neural network model, i.e. Ocropy, performed better at recognizing the letters with supralinear strokes that characterize the published Sahidic texts. After training Ocropy for Coptic using artificial neural networks, the team achieved an accuracy rate of >91% for the OCR analysis of Coptic typeset. We subsequently compared the efficiency of Ocropy to that of manual transcribing and concluded that the use of Ocropy to extract Coptic from digital images of printed texts is highly beneficial to Coptic DH.


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