Neural Networks are being used for character recognition from last many years but most of the work was confined to English character recognition. Till date, a very little work has been reported for Handwritten Farsi Character recognition. In this paper, we have made an attempt to recognize handwritten Farsi characters by using a multilayer perceptron with one hidden layer. The error backpropaga...

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is the digital encoding of printed and handwritten characters from an image file created through a scanner or other optical imaging devices. In other words, OCR is a software program that converts image-texts into computerized or digital text (figure 1) . While OCR has been extensively used as the basic application of different learning methods in machine lea...

In this paper we have tried to model, design and test a prototype of Farsi/English search engine. The engine has the duty of covering the web media features such as heterogeneity, volatility and huge amount of unstructured worldwide information. These features as well as the rapid advance in technology, challenge the effectiveness of classical Information Retrieval (IR) techniques. Although a g...

BACKGROUND Fear of childbirth may cause complications such as experiencing severe labour pain, postpartum depression, and impaired mother-fetus attachment. OBJECTIVE To validate the Farsi version of the Wijma Delivery Expectancy/Experience Questionnaire (W-DEQ) (versions A & B) in a sample of Iranian women. METHODS The WDE-Q (versions A & B) was translated into Farsi, and the content validi...

This paper presents a new comprehensive database for isolated offline handwritten Farsi/Arabic numbers and characters for use in optical character recognition research. The database is freely available for academic use. So far no such a freely database in Farsi language is available. Grayscale images of 52,380 characters and 17,740 numerals are included. Each image was scanned from Iranian scho...

Displaying a document in Middle Eastern languages requires contextual analysis due to different presentational forms for each character of the alphabet. The words of the document will be formed by the joining of the correct positional glyphs representing corresponding presentational forms of the characters. A set of rules defines the joining of the glyphs. As usual, these rules vary from langua...

Entity profiling (EP) as an important task of Web mining and information extraction (IE) is the process of extracting entities in question and their related information from given text resources. From computational viewpoint, the Farsi language is one of the less-studied and less-resourced languages, and suffers from the lack of high quality language processing tools. This problem emphasizes th...

BACKGROUND This article is a report of psychometric testing of the Farsi version of Resources and Support for Chronic Illness Self-management (RSSM) scale. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, a convenience sample of 160 patients with type 2 diabetes, registered with the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases' team-focused diabetes clinic, were recruited (response rate=83.7%; n=134). Parti...

Postpartum depression is a debilitating mental disorder with a high prevalence. The aim of this study was review of the related studies. In this narrative review, we report studies that investigated risk factors of postpartum depression by searching the database, Scopus, PubMed, ScienceDirect, Uptodate, Proquest in the period 2000-2015 published articles about the factors associated with postpa...