Segmentation of Arabic Characters

2013 ◽  
pp. 251-288
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Zeki ◽  
Mohamad S. Zakaria ◽  
Choong-Yeun Liong
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Arabic Characters ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Standard Set

The cursive nature of Arabic writing is the main challenge to Arabic Optical Character Recognition developer. Methods to segment Arabic words into characters have been proposed. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the methods proposed by researchers to segment Arabic characters. The segmentation methods are categorized into nine different methods based on techniques used. The advantages and drawbacks of each are presented and discussed. Most researchers did not report the segmentation accuracy in their research; instead, they reported the overall recognition rate which did not reflect the influence of each sub-stage on the final recognition rate. The size of the training/testing data was not large enough to be generalized. The field of Arabic Character Recognition needs a standard set of test documents in both image and character formats, together with the ground truth and a set of performance evaluation tools, which would enable comparing the performance of different algorithms. As each method has its strengths, a hybrid segmentation approach is a promising method. The paper concludes that there is still no perfect segmentation method for ACR and much opportunity for research in this area.

Segmentation of Arabic Characters

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 48-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Zeki ◽  
Mohamad S. Zakaria ◽  
Choong-Yeun Liong
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Arabic Characters ◽  
Segmentation Methods ◽  
Segmentation Accuracy ◽  
Segmentation Approach ◽  
Standard Set

The cursive nature of Arabic writing is the main challenge to Arabic Optical Character Recognition developer. Methods to segment Arabic words into characters have been proposed. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the methods proposed by researchers to segment Arabic characters. The segmentation methods are categorized into nine different methods based on techniques used. The advantages and drawbacks of each are presented and discussed. Most researchers did not report the segmentation accuracy in their research; instead, they reported the overall recognition rate which did not reflect the influence of each sub-stage on the final recognition rate. The size of the training/testing data was not large enough to be generalized. The field of Arabic Character Recognition needs a standard set of test documents in both image and character formats, together with the ground truth and a set of performance evaluation tools, which would enable comparing the performance of different algorithms. As each method has its strengths, a hybrid segmentation approach is a promising method. The paper concludes that there is still no perfect segmentation method for ACR and much opportunity for research in this area.

scholarly journals Moment invariant-based features for Jawi character recognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 1711 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fitri Arnia ◽  
Khairun Saddami ◽  
Khairul Munadi
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Unique Combination ◽  
Moment Invariant ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Arabic Characters ◽  
Ancient Manuscripts

<p>Ancient manuscripts written in Malay-Arabic characters, which are known as "Jawi" characters, are mostly found in Malay world. Nowadays, many of the manuscripts have been digitalized. Unlike Roman letters, there is no optical character recognition (OCR) software for Jawi characters. This article proposes a new algorithm for Jawi character recognition based on Hu’s moment as an invariant feature that we call the tree root (TR) algorithm. The TR algorithm allows every Jawi character to have a unique combination of moment. Seven values of the Hu’s moment are calculated from all Jawi characters, which consist of 36 isolated, 27 initial, 27 middle, and 35 end characters; this makes a total of 125 characters. The TR algorithm was then applied to recognize these characters. To assess the TR algorithm, five characters that had been rotated to 90o and 180o and scaled with factors of 0.5 and 2 were used. Overall, the recognition rate of the TR algorithm was 90.4%; 113 out of 125 characters have a unique combination of moment values, while testing on rotated and scaled characters achieved 82.14% recognition rate. The proposed method showed a superior performance compared with the Support Vector Machine and Euclidian Distance as classifier.</p>

scholarly journals Performance Evaluation of Automatic Number Plate Recognition on Android Smartphone Platform

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 1973
Author(s):  
Teddy Surya Gunawan ◽  
Abdul Mutholib ◽  
Mira Kartiwi
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Template Matching ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Additional Processing ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann

<span>Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an intelligent system which has the capability to recognize the character on vehicle number plate. Previous researches implemented ANPR system on personal computer (PC) with high resolution camera and high computational capability. On the other hand, not many researches have been conducted on the design and implementation of ANPR in smartphone platforms which has limited camera resolution and processing speed. In this paper, various steps to optimize ANPR, including pre-processing, segmentation, and optical character recognition (OCR) using artificial neural network (ANN) and template matching, were described. The proposed ANPR algorithm was based on Tesseract and Leptonica libraries. For comparison purpose, the template matching based OCR will be compared to ANN based OCR. Performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated on the developed Malaysian number plates’ image database captured by smartphone’s camera. Results showed that the accuracy and processing time of the proposed algorithm using template matching was 97.5% and 1.13 seconds, respectively. On the other hand, the traditional algorithm using template matching only obtained 83.7% recognition rate with 0.98 second processing time. It shows that our proposed ANPR algorithm improved the recognition rate with negligible additional processing time.</span>

Search-Based Classification for Offline Tifinagh Alphabets Recognition

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Mohammed Erritali ◽  
Youssef Chouni ◽  
Youssef Ouadid
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Processing Time ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Main Difficulty ◽  
Optical Character

The main difficulty in developing a successful optical character recognition (OCR) system lies in the confusion between the characters. In the case of Amazigh writing (Tifinagh alphabets), some characters have similarities based on rotation or scale. Most of the researchers attempted to solve this problem by combining multiple descriptors and / or classifiers which increased the recognition rate, but at the expense of processing time that becomes more prohibitive. Thus, reducing the confusion of characters and their recognition times is the major challenge of OCR systems. In this chapter, the authors present an off-line OCR system for Tifinagh characters.

scholarly journals Improving the Accuracy of Tesseract 4.0 OCR Engine Using Convolution-Based Preprocessing

Symmetry ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 715
Author(s):  
Dan Sporici ◽  
Elena Cușnir ◽  
Costin-Anton Boiangiu
Keyword(s):  
Reinforcement Learning ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Edit Distance ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Image Preprocessing ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Great Performance ◽  
Relative Change ◽  
Reinforcement Learning Model

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of identifying and converting texts rendered in images using pixels to a more computer-friendly representation. The presented work aims to prove that the accuracy of the Tesseract 4.0 OCR engine can be further enhanced by employing convolution-based preprocessing using specific kernels. As Tesseract 4.0 has proven great performance when evaluated against a favorable input, its capability of properly detecting and identifying characters in more realistic, unfriendly images is questioned. The article proposes an adaptive image preprocessing step guided by a reinforcement learning model, which attempts to minimize the edit distance between the recognized text and the ground truth. It is shown that this approach can boost the character-level accuracy of Tesseract 4.0 from 0.134 to 0.616 (+359% relative change) and the F1 score from 0.163 to 0.729 (+347% relative change) on a dataset that is considered challenging by its authors.

scholarly journals Recognition of Handwritten Characters using Deep Convolutional Neural Network

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S4) ◽  
pp. 314-317
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Writing Style ◽  
Handwritten Character Recognition ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Handwritten Character ◽  
Handwritten Recognition ◽  
Difficult Part

Handwritten character recognition (HCR) mainly entails optical character recognition. However, HCR involves in formatting and segmentation of the input. HCR is still an active area of research due to the fact that numerous verification in writing style, shape, size to individuals. The main difficult part of Indian handwritten recognition has overlapping between characters. These overlapping shaped characters are difficult to recognize that may lead to low recognition rate. These factors also increase the complexity of handwritten character recognition. This paper proposes a new approach to identify handwritten characters for Telugu language using Deep Learning (DL). The proposed work can be enhance the recognition rate of individual characters. The proposed approach recognizes with overall accuracy is 94%.

scholarly journals APPLICATION OF ZONAL AND CURVATURE FEATURES TO NUMERALS RECOGNITION

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Binod Kumar Prasad
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Signature Verification ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Knn Classifier ◽  
Average Recognition Rate ◽  
Distance Coding

Purpose of the study: The purpose of this work is to present an offline Optical Character Recognition system to recognise handwritten English numerals to help automation of document reading. It helps to avoid tedious and time-consuming manual typing to key in important information in a computer system to preserve it for a longer time. Methodology: This work applies Curvature Features of English numeral images by encoding them in terms of distance and slope. The finer local details of images have been extracted by using Zonal features. The feature vectors obtained from the combination of these features have been fed to the KNN classifier. The whole work has been executed using the MatLab Image Processing toolbox. Main Findings: The system produces an average recognition rate of 96.67% with K=1 whereas, with K=3, the rate increased to 97% with corresponding errors of 3.33% and 3% respectively. Out of all the ten numerals, some numerals like ‘3’ and ‘8’ have shown respectively lower recognition rates. It is because of the similarity between their structures. Applications of this study: The proposed work is related to the recognition of English numerals. The model can be used widely for recognition of any pattern like signature verification, face recognition, character or word recognition in another language under Natural Language Processing, etc. Novelty/Originality of this study: The novelty of the work lies in the process of feature extraction. Curves present in the structure of a numeral sample have been encoded based on distance and slope thereby presenting Distance features and Slope features. Vertical Delta Distance Coding (VDDC) and Horizontal Delta Distance Coding (HDDC) encode a curve from vertical and horizontal directions to reveal concavity and convexity from different angles.

scholarly journals Product Label Reading System for Blind People using Support Vector Machine Algorithm

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6S2) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Ground Truth ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Svm Classifier ◽  
Stroke Width ◽  
Optical Character ◽  
Character Size ◽  
Reading System

Theoretical—This paper shows a camera based assistive content perusing of item marks from articles to support outwardly tested individuals. Camera fills in as fundamental wellspring of info. To recognize the items, the client will move the article before camera and this moving item will be identified by Background Subtraction (BGS) Method. Content district will be naturally confined as Region of Interest (ROI). Content is extricated from ROI by consolidating both guideline based and learning based technique. A tale standard based content limitation calculation is utilized by recognizing geometric highlights like pixel esteem, shading force, character size and so forth and furthermore highlights like Gradient size, slope width and stroke width are found out utilizing SVM classifier and a model is worked to separate content and non-content area. This framework is coordinated with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to extricate content and the separated content is given as a voice yield to the client. The framework is assessed utilizing ICDAR-2011 dataset which comprise of 509 common scene pictures with ground truth.

scholarly journals Construction of Statistical SVM based Recognition Model for Handwritten Character Recognition

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-107
Author(s):  
Yasir Babiker Hamdan ◽  
Sathish
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Template Matching ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Handwritten Character Recognition ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Handwritten Character

There are many applications of the handwritten character recognition (HCR) approach still exist. Reading postal addresses in various states contains different languages in any union government like India. Bank check amounts and signature verification is one of the important application of HCR in the automatic banking system in all developed countries. The optical character recognition of the documents is comparing with handwriting documents by a human. This OCR is used for translation purposes of characters from various types of files such as image, word document files. The main aim of this research article is to provide the solution for various handwriting recognition approaches such as touch input from the mobile screen and picture file. The recognition approaches performing with various methods that we have chosen in artificial neural networks and statistical methods so on and to address nonlinearly divisible issues. This research article consisting of various approaches to compare and recognize the handwriting characters from the image documents. Besides, the research paper is comparing statistical approach support vector machine (SVM) classifiers network method with statistical, template matching, structural pattern recognition, and graphical methods. It has proved Statistical SVM for OCR system performance that is providing a good result that is configured with machine learning approach. The recognition rate is higher than other methods mentioned in this research article. The proposed model has tested on a training section that contained various stylish letters and digits to learn with a higher accuracy level. We obtained test results of 91% of accuracy to recognize the characters from documents. Finally, we have discussed several future tasks of this research further.

Automated Text Detection and Recognition in Annotated Biomedical Publication Images

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soumya De ◽  
R. Joe Stanley ◽  
Beibei Cheng ◽  
Sameer Antani ◽  
Rodney Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Character Recognition ◽  
Optical Character Recognition ◽  
Recognition Rate ◽  
Regions Of Interest ◽  
Correct Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Biomedical Publication ◽  
Biomedical Publications ◽  
Detection And Recognition

Images in biomedical publications often convey important information related to an article's content. When referenced properly, these images aid in clinical decision support. Annotations such as text labels and symbols, as provided by medical experts, are used to highlight regions of interest within the images. These annotations, if extracted automatically, could be used in conjunction with either the image caption text or the image citations (mentions) in the articles to improve biomedical information retrieval. In the current study, automatic detection and recognition of text labels in biomedical publication images was investigated. This paper presents both image analysis and feature-based approaches to extract and recognize specific regions of interest (text labels) within images in biomedical publications. Experiments were performed on 6515 characters extracted from text labels present in 200 biomedical publication images. These images are part of the data set from ImageCLEF 2010. Automated character recognition experiments were conducted using geometry-, region-, exemplar-, and profile-based correlation features and Fourier descriptors extracted from the characters. Correct recognition as high as 92.67% was obtained with a support vector machine classifier, compared to a 75.90% correct recognition rate with a benchmark Optical Character Recognition technique.

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