The On/Off (LMCA) Dual Arabic Handwriting Database

For many years ago, handwriting is a challenger interest, both online and off line recognition of the handwriting are largely presented in literature. Latin script studies were largely presented using UNIPEN or IRONOFF databases. But Arabic studies were poorly presented in literature because there are no common Arabic data bases. In this paper, we present an Arabic data base which called LMCA (in Frensh it is "Lettres, Mots et Chiffres Arabe") and composed of letters, words and digits. We present also some related works using this database. Note that LCMA database can be used in online or in off line recognition of the Arabic handwritten script.