Line and Ligature Segmentation of Urdu Nastaleeq Text

The recognition accuracy of ligature-based Urdu language optical character recognition (OCR) systems highly depends on the accuracy of segmentation that converts Urdu text into lines and ligatures. In general, lines and ligatures-based Urdu language OCRs are more successful as compared to characters...

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Main Authors: Ibrar Ahmad, Xiaojie Wang, Ruifan Li, Manzoor Ahmed, Rahat Ullah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2017-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7932054/