Offline Handwritten Quranic Text Recognition: A Research Perspective

This paper aims to explain the recognition system for the offline handwritten Quranic text. The Arabic is inherent language for Quranic text. The Arabic handwritten text differs from others in writing style, use of diacritics, ligatures and overlaps. These make the process of recognition handwritten Quranic text more challenging. An overview of the recognition system as well as, the associated problems in recognition of handwritten Quranic Arabic text is presented.