In Africa, there are a number of languages with their own indigenous scripts. This paper presents an OCR for Amharic scripts. Amharic is the official and working language of Ethio...
This paper describes an offline handwriting recognition system for Amharic words based on lexicon. The system computes direction fields of scanned handwritten documents, from whic...
As large quantity of document images is getting archived by the digital libraries, there is a need for an efficient search strategies to make them available as per users informatio...
Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and uses Ethiopic script for writing. In this paper, we present writer-independent HMM-based Amharic word recognition for offline hand...
This paper presents an Italic/Roman word type recognition system without a priori knowledge on the characters' font. This method aims at analyzing old documents in which char...