Optical character recognition for multilingual documents: Amazigh-French

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a process that allows converting scanned or photographed images of typewritten or printed text into editable text. The OCR studies have been explored towards many languages. However, there are not many reliable OCR systems available for the Amazigh language. Furthermore, the existed studies focus only on Tifinagh writing system, an alphabet that has been recently generalized with the creation of the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture, in 2001. Hence, it is important to treat Amazigh writing transcribed in Latin or Arabic alphabet, which was the most used in Morocco. In this paper, we focus our study on Amazigh documents transcribed in Latin.