| Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts 2012 Edition Contributor(s): Märgner, Volker (Editor), El Abed, Haikal (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1447159764 ISBN-13: 9781447159766 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Computer Graphics - Computers | Document Management - Computers | Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition |
| Dewey: 005.52 |
| Physical Information: 1.24" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.86 lbs) 592 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts is the first book of its kind, specifically devoted to this emerging field. Topics and features: contains contributions from the leading researchers in the field; with a Foreword by Professor Bente Maegaard of the University of Copenhagen; presents a detailed overview of Arabic character recognition technology, covering a range of different aspects of pre-processing and feature extraction; reviews a broad selection of varying approaches, including HMM-based methods and a recognition system based on multidimensional recurrent neural networks; examines the evaluation of Arabic script recognition systems, discussing data collection and annotation, benchmarking strategies, and handwriting recognition competitions; describes numerous applications of Arabic script recognition technology, from historical Arabic manuscripts to online Arabic recognition. |