An Approach to Separate Overlapped Characters of Arabic Script

Abstract

This paper presents a new method on separate the overlapped character of handwritten and printed Arabic script. The method depends on vertical scan and region growing method, region growing procedure that starts with a set of seed pixels. The aim is to grow a uniform and connected region from each seed. Applied to cursive Arabic script, where ligatures, overlap and style variation pose challenge to the recognition system.Keywords: Arabic character segmentation, optical character recognition (OCR), overlapped Arabic character.

Keywords

Arabic Script