Off-line recognition requires transferring the text under consideration into an image file. This
represents the only available solution to bring the printed materials to the electronic media. …

A vast amount of valuable human knowledge is recorded in documents. The rapid growth in
the number of machine-readable documents for public or private access necessitates the …

This paper presents a new method on off-line recognition of handwritten Arabic script. The
method does not require segmentation into characters, and is applied to cursive Arabic script, …

This paper presents a cursive Arabic text recognition system. The system decomposes the
document image into text line images and extracts a set of simple statistical features from a …

The innovation capacity of both China and India has contributed to their economic growth in
recent years. 6 Their enhanced innovation capacity was primarily the outcome of heavy …

In spite of the importance of information technology (IT) for many organizations to help manage
the enterprise daily transactions, IT project failure rates still remain high and are of great …

Saudi Arabia has established a goal of steering its economy away from a reliance on natural
resources toward the development of knowledge-based industries. Strong collaborative …

Saudi Arabia embarks the transition from conventional economy into a knowledge-based
economy. This implies improving the national innovation capacity and developing an …

We present a technique for extracting structural features from cursive Arabic script. After
preprocessing, the skeleton of the binary word image is decomposed into a number of segments …

We present a new technique for recognising Arabic cursive words from scanned images of
text. The approach is segmentation-free, and is applied to four different Arabic typeface, …