--- Muhammad Alkarouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Salam. - Nadim __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
