ARABASE: A Relational Database for Arabic OCR Systems

In this paper we present a database for the research of Arabic off-line and on-line handwriting optical recognition as well as for machine printed text optical recognition. Digital images of documents, text phrases, words/sub-words, isolated characters, digits, signatures, soon are and included in ARABASE. Data corresponds to a variety of lexes (cities names, literal amounts, isolated characters, digits, free texts, etc.). The database organization offers interesting commodities to be explored via an Arabic writing recognition system. A useful tool enables the user, via a graphical interface to experiment different classical tasks of image processing.