A Comprehensive Database for Offline Sindhi Handwritten Text Recognition
Main Authors: | Shafique A. Awan, Dil Nawaz Hakro, Intzar Ali Lashari, Zahid Hussain, Akhtar H. Jalbani, Maryam Hameed |
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Format: | Article |
Bahasa: | eng |
Terbitan: |
, 2017
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Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/3534899 |
Daftar Isi:
- A well designed image database is very necessary for the recognition of any language and many of language of the world have their own database for the text recognition. In this paper we are presenting the comprehensive database for Sindhi Language which is highly demanding language of the Middle East countries. The database will consist of the many words, which are written by the many writers. This is novel approach for the creating and testing of Sindhi Text. This database contains the isolated characters as well as the text of Sindhi language. The database is consisting of the images of the handwritten text, ground truth information, boxes for the users writing and lines for the text recognition. Tools for the segmentation and creation of the database have been developed in MATLAB, which helps to extract the handwritten data from the designed forms. We developed the different forms for the collection of data from the different users. This database can be used by the other language which possesses the same characteristics of Sindhi Language.