Improving Nastalique specific pre-recognition process for Urdu OCR

Urdu language is written using Arabic script in Nastalique writing style. Nastalique script is highly cursive, context sensitive and is hard to process as only the last character in its ligature sits on the baseline. In addition, it exhibits character and ligature level spatial overlap. Due to these...

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Main Authors: Javed, S.T., Hussain, S.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Character recognition
Data mining
Image recognition
Image segmentation
Information retrieval
Optical character recognition software
Optical distortion
Optical sensors
Text recognition
Writing
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Summary:Urdu language is written using Arabic script in Nastalique writing style. Nastalique script is highly cursive, context sensitive and is hard to process as only the last character in its ligature sits on the baseline. In addition, it exhibits character and ligature level spatial overlap. Due to these factors, the placement of dots and other diacritics is also highly contextual and variable. There is now increasing amount of work to process and recognize Nastalique script to develop Urdu OCR. This paper proposes improvements to these methods. The paper focuses on Nastalique specific pre-processing methods which can be employed before the text recognition process. The recognition and post recognition processes will be addressed separately.
DOI:10.1109/INMIC.2009.5383111