Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Neural Networks

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A. Menasriz
A. Bennia

Abstract

We offer an Arabic writing recognition system dedicated to the automatic reading of the literal amounts of checks written in long Arabic. In this work, we present a new fire of primitives for the characterization of amount words. The developed system is structured around four distinct modules. An acquisition module, a preprocessing module. A primitive extraction module and a recognition module (classification and decision). The latter is a neural classifier. The results obtained on the databases used are promising.

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Menasriz, A., & Bennia, A. (2013). Arabic Handwriting Recognition Using Neural Networks. AL-Lisaniyyat, 19(1), 28-37. https://doi.org/10.61850/allj.v19i1.477
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