On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 23:22, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 15:41, Ossama Khayat wrote: > > > > > > Topic: A paper that "introduces a statistical approch > > > for the recognition of Arabic caracters". > > > - http://www.ici.ro/ici/revista/sic2001_3/art4.html > > > > > > Topic: Some softwares from SA > > > - http://ceri.kacst.edu.sa/webpage/software_a_3.htm > > > > > > Topic: How to encode image produced by a recognition system? > > > - http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2002/March/msg00001.html > > > > > > Topic: Graph based segmentation > > > - http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~elgammal/pub/ACR_ICDAR01_final.pdf > > > > While the links will be very useful to get the ball running, > > I believe the scientific/academic status is even more advanced > > than this. This actually translates to me to there is *no* Arabic > > open source OCR. Better to use existing OCR. Is gOCR active? From > > some googling there is Clara OCR and ocrad (gnu ocr). > > > > Any body knows anything about that? > > Here are some of the links I found - mind you I didn't sift > through them fully, but I think there is enough info there > for a concentrated start. I will contact various academics > (I'll CC the list of course) to see what they have to say > (if their emails don't bounce back that is). > > One of the URLs noted below also lists the various Open Source > OCR projects (GOCR and ClaraOCR are both actively maintained > and we should contact their developers and all projects to see > if they are open to including Arabic support given our help). > > List of Linux OCR applications: > - http://www.linux-ocr.ekitap.gen.tr > > Various Research Papers/Sites (Arabic related): > - http://tides.umiacs.umd.edu/description.html > - http://www.bmva.ac.uk/bmvc/1999/papers/42.pdf > - http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=505744&dl=ACM&coll=GUIDE > - http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabocr.html > - http://www.hf.uio.no/east/sibawayhi/HomePage > > Hope that's enough to get started. > If a wiki page with all these links and info is created, it would do us all a lot of good ;) Just a thought. -- ------------------------------------------------------- | Mohammed Elzubeir | Visit us at: | | | http://www.arabeyes.org/ | | Arabeyes Project | Homepage: | | Unix the 'right' way | http://elzubeir.fakkir.net/ | -------------------------------------------------------
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