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An Automatic Outline Fitting Algorithm for Arabic Characters

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Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003 (ICCSA 2003)

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In this paper, an efficient algorithm for automatic outline capture of digital character images is presented. This method is well suited for non-Roman languages like Arabic, Urdu, Persian, etc. Contemporary word processing systems store shapes of the characters in terms of their outlines, and outlines are expressed as cubic Bezier curves. The process of capturing outlines includes steps detection of boundary, discorvering Corner Points and Break Points and fitting the curve. The work done in this paper, fully automate the above process and produces optimal results.

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  1. Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KFUPM Box No. 1510, Dhahran, 31261, Saudi Arabia

    M. Sarfraz & M. A. Khan

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  1. Army High Performance Computing Research Center, USA University of Minessota Department of Computer Science and Engineering, MN, 55455, USA

    Vipin Kumar

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1N4, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. Heuchera Technologies Inc., 122 9251-8Yonge Street, Richmond Hill, ON, Canada, L4C 9T3

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  4. School of Computer Science, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland UK

    Chih Jeng Kenneth Tan

  5. Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationelle Montréal, Université de Montréal, Québec, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Pierre L’Ecuyer

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Sarfraz, M., Khan, M.A. (2003). An Automatic Outline Fitting Algorithm for Arabic Characters. In: Kumar, V., Gavrilova, M.L., Tan, C.J.K., L’Ecuyer, P. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications — ICCSA 2003. ICCSA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2669. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44842-X_60

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