Automatic processing of Historical Arabic Documents: A comprehensive Survey

• Published in: Pattern recognition Vol. 100; pp. 107144 - 1:107144-17
• Main Authors: Ibn Khedher, Mohamed, Jmila, Houda, El-Yacoubi, Mounim A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.04.2020; Elsevier
• Subjects: Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Data retrieval; Document and Text Processing; Historical Arabic Documents; Survey on Historical Arabic Documents; Text analysis; Text recognition; Writer identification; Historical Arabic Documents; Data retrieval; Text analysis; Text recognition; Survey on Historical Arabic Documents; Writer identification

•Challenges of automatic processing of historical Arabic documents (APHAD).•Classification of APHAD applications into four tasks: Data analysis, Writer classification, Data classification and Data retrieval.•For each application, a survey of existing approaches is presented.•For each application, th...