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dc.contributor.author | Israr Ud Din | |
dc.contributor.author | Imran Siddiqi | |
dc.contributor.author | Shehzad Khalid | |
dc.contributor.author | Tahir Azam | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-26T09:38:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-26T09:38:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/7504 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper presents a segmentation-free optical character recognition system for printed Urdu Nastaliq font using ligatures as units of recognition. The proposed technique relies on statistical features and employs Hidden Markov Models for classification. A total of 1525 unique high-frequency Urdu ligatures from the standard Urdu Printed Text Images (UPTI) database are considered in our study. Ligatures extracted from text lines are first split into primary (main body) and secondary (dots and diacritics) ligatures and multiple instances of the same ligature are grouped into clusters using a sequential clustering algorithm. Hidden Markov Models are trained separately for each ligature using the examples in the respective cluster by sliding right-to-left the overlapped windows and extracting a set of statistical features. Given the query text, the primary and secondary ligatures are separately recognized and later associated together using a set of heuristics to recognize the complete ligature. The system evaluated on the standard UPTI Urdu database reported a ligature recognition rate of 92% on more than 6000 query ligatures. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Bahria University Islamabad Campus | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | ;10.1186/s13640-017-0208-z | |
dc.subject | Department of Computer Science CS | en_US |
dc.title | Segmentation-free optical character recognition for printed Urdu text | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |