The main theme of this paper is the automatic segmentation of Arabic words using Mathematical Morphology tools. The proposed algorithm has been tested with a set of Arabic words written by different writers ranging from poor to acceptable quality, The initial experimental results are very encouraging and promising.
Index Terms:
Handwritten Arabic words, Mathematical Morphology, Slant Correction, Connected Components, Segmentation, Singularities and Regularities.
Citation:
Deya Motawa, Adnan Amin, Robert Sabourin, "Segmentation of Arabic Cursive Script," icdar, pp.625, Fourth International Conference Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'97), 1997