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Using SIFT descriptors for OCR of printed Arabic

Rosenberg et al., 2012

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17595042243839268055
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Rosenberg A
Dershowitz N
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Although optical character recognition of printed texts has been a focus of research for the last few decades, Arabic printed text, being cursive, still poses a challenge. The challenge is twofold: segmenting words into letters and identifying individual letters. We propose a …
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