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A Metaheuristic Algorithm for OCR Baseline Detection of Arabic Languages

A Metaheuristic Algorithm for OCR Baseline Detection of Arabic Languages
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Author(s): F. Daneshfar (University of Kurdistan, Iran), W. Fathy (University of Kurdistan, Iran)and B. Alaqeband (University of Kurdistan, Iran)
Copyright: 2015
Pages: 28
Source title: Handbook of Research on Artificial Intelligence Techniques and Algorithms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Pandian Vasant (University of Technology Petronas, Malaysia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-7258-1.ch023

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Abstract

Preprocessing is a very important part of cursive languages Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. Thus, baseline detection, which is one of the main parts of the preprocessing operation, plays a basic role on OCR systems; improvement on baseline detection could be absolutely useful for decreasing errors in recognition words. In this chapter, a metaheuristic- and mathematical-based algorithm is recommended, which has improved the baseline detection process in relation to the well-known baseline detection algorithms. The most important advantages of the proposed method are simplicity, high speed processing, and reliability. To test this novel solution, IFN/ENIT database, which is a well-known and attending database, is utilized. However, the proposed solution is reliable to any standard database of cursive language's OCR.

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