Simultaneous Segmentation and Recognition of Arabic Printed Text Using Linguistic Concepts of Vocabulary

摘要

In this paper, we propose a new approach to Arabic printed text analysis and recognition. This approach is based on linguistic concepts of Arabic vocabulary. For the text, we allow to categorize the words in decomposable words (derived from a root) and indecomposable words (not derived from a root) and to put forth morpho-syntactic characterization hypotheses for each word. For the decomposable words, we attempt to recognize word basic morphemes: antefix, prefix, infix, suffix, postfix and root contrary to existing approaches which are usually based on recognition of word entity by holistic approach.