Evaluation Approach of Arabic Character Recognition

Abstract

This paper proposes and contributes towards designing a complete system for off-line Arabic character recognition. The proposed system is specifically meant for Arabic handwriting recognition, but it equally works for the typed character recognition. It has various phases including preprocessing and segmentation. It also includes thinning phase and finds vertical and horizontal projection profiles. The recognition phase is managed by genetic algorithm. The genetic algorithm stands on feature extraction algorithm that defines six features for each segment. The algorithm, for Arabic handwriting recognition, obtained 90.46 recognition rate. The proposed system has been compared with other systems in the literature. It has achieved the second best recognition rate.