Online Urdu Character Recognition System

Handheld devices generally provide the facility of text input through keys that are an inconvenient and slow way of input. Digitizing tablets and light pens, on the other hand provide a natural and convenient way of input. There are many online character recognizers for languages based on Roman and Chinese characters but there is no such commercial product for Urdu/Arabic text input. We present the design of an online Urdu handwriting recognition system that can recognize about 850 single character, 2 character and 3 character ligatures, enabling input of about 18000 common words from the Urdu Dictionary.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: MVA
• Authors: S. Afaq Husain, Asma Sajjad, Fareeha Anwar
• Keywords: Computer Vision, MVA 2007, Online Character Recognizers, Text Input, Urdu/Arabic Text Input