KHATT: An open Arabic offline handwritten text database

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 1096 - 1112
• Main Authors: Mahmoud, Sabri A., Ahmad, Irfan, Al-Khatib, Wasfi G., Alshayeb, Mohammad, Tanvir Parvez, Mohammad, Märgner, Volker, Fink, Gernot A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.03.2014
• Subjects: Arabic handwritten text database; Arabic OCR; Classifiers; Document analysis; Form processing; Ground truth; Mathematical models; Pattern recognition; Segments; Texts; XML; Arabic OCR; Form processing; Arabic handwritten text database; Document analysis

A comprehensive Arabic handwritten text database is an essential resource for Arabic handwritten text recognition research. This is especially true due to the lack of such database for Arabic handwritten text. In this paper, we report our comprehensive Arabic offline Handwritten Text database (KHATT...