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A Review on Persian Script and Recognition Techniques

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This paper presents the history of the Persian (Farsi) script, as well as the development of different writing styles for the current Persian script. It also addresses the Arabic alphabet adopted and evolved for writing the Persian language as well as different writing styles. This evolution includes further extensions to the Arabic alphabet and altered shapes of some Arabic letters. The differences between current Arabic and Persian handwritings for automated recognition purposes are discussed. A short review on techniques in Persian script recognition is presented, and the shortcomings and challenges in this area are highlighted.

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  1. Center for Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (CENPARMI), 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West, Suite EV003.403, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3G 1M8

    Sara Izadi, Javad Sadri, Farshid Solimanpour & Ching Y. Suen

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Izadi, S., Sadri, J., Solimanpour, F., Suen, C.Y. (2008). A Review on Persian Script and Recognition Techniques. In: Doermann, D., Jaeger, S. (eds) Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition. SACH 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4768. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78199-8_2

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