Recognition of Arabic Cursive Handwriting

Abstract

This paper presents a process for cursive Arabic writing recognition. This problem is complicated by the wide variety of styles, personal attitudes, and multi-level writing. Therefore, we implement a hierarchical strategy for recognition. Simultaneously, this requires the definition of primitives, connectives, and laws of concatenation. Consequently, we develop a linguistic recognition system together with its grammar and parser. The presented system, a new approach to this important area of research that reveals the complexities and advantages of Arabic cursive writing, then providing adequate solutions to the encountered difficulties. The resulting pattern grammar belongs to the context-free class. We complement the process by a lexicon, whose entries are the chosen primitives. The resulting system has a corresponding non-deterministic recursive automaton implementation