ARABASE : A relational database for Arabic OCR systems

Abstract EN

In this paper we present a database for the research of Arabic off-line and on-line handwriting optical recognition as well as for machine printed text optical recognition.

Digital images of documents, text phrases, words / sub-words, isolated characters, digits, signatures, soon are and included in ARABASE.

Data corresponds to a variety of lexes (cities names, literal amounts, isolated characters, digits, free texts, etc.).

The database organization offers interesting commodities to be explored via an Arabic writing recognition system.

A useful tool enables the user, via a graphical interface to experiment different classical tasks of image processing.