In this paper we present a survey of the literature on Arabic writer identification scheme and up-to date techniques employed in identification. The paper begins with an overview of the various writer identification schemes in Arabic and Persian languages. After that, an attempt is made to describe the complex character of Arabic strokes. Previous studies have used a number of Arabic datasets c...

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a very old and of great interest in pattern recognition field. The recognition of cursive scripts like Persian and Arabic languages is a difficult task as their segmentation suffers from serious problems in different languages. Segmentation is a process of dividing cursive words into smaller parts in order to decrease complexity and increase accuracy of re...

In the first decades of nineteenth century, British Calcutta stood as one most important cities in world for editing, printing, and selling Arabic books. Before famous Bulaq Press Cairo was established 1820, from 1801–19, European Orientalists Indian munshi s (scribes clerks) maulvi (Arabic, mawlana s), alongside Yemeni scholar, had already printed 22 titles movable type—many time—at Fort Willi...

on Materia Medica was compiled by Mir Muhammad Hussain, a native of Khorasan and pupil of Mir Muhammad Ali-el-Husaini. He resided first in Khorasan, then in Shiraz, and afterwards in India, principally at Murshidabad, in Bengal. He tells us in his preface that, in A. H. 1185 (A. D. 1771), lie was persuaded to undertake the compilation of a Persian Pharmacopoeia, and that when this was completed...

traditionalists of european literature in the sixteenth century ad, were trying to restore that literary heritage due to technical and human theme of the ancient greek literature since modernists began to confront the traditionalists by the the end of the seventeenth century and invited them to avoid old formats and to define literature and poetry in another way. since then, persian and arabic ...

For a human language to reach its full potential in cyberspace, platform and browser independent support for data entry and display are required. Arabic web applications are far from this state of ubiquitous support. Full support is available only under Arabic Windows, while little support is provided under other versions of Windows, and no support at all under UNIX systems .The Nuun toolkit ad...

Abstract The article discusses a little-known lost Persian tale, Story of Sharwin Dastabay , and traces references to it in Arabic, Persian, Byzantine sources. earliest the story come from mid- late eighth century, seems have remained well known Arabic literature until early twelfth possibly fourteenth while shows that at least some its elements circulated already mid-sixth century. also how ma...

Transliteration editors are essential for keying-in language scripts into the computer using QWERTY keyboard. Applications of transliteration editors in the context of Universal Digital Library (UDL) include entry of meta-data and dictionaries for many languages both local and International. In this paper we propose a simple approach for building transliteration editors for International langua...