Arabic character recognition : many approaches and one decade

الملخص EN

-This paper give a survey on Arabic character !•ecognition through the last ten years.

It covers di؛ferent approaches taken by researchers regarding this topic.

This includes different operations taken as preprocessing, the process of recognition itself, and postprocessing if applicable.

The preprocessing includes, but is not limited to, the following operations: noise elimination, digitization, thinning, and separation of overlapped characters.

The section on the processing stage covers the procedures for segmenting the whole word into characters, feature selection, and the different approaches adopted for recognition, which are discussed in detail.