The optical character recognition of Urdu-like cursive scripts

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Highlights：

• A literature review of the Nasta'liq and Naskh cursive script OCR.

• The peculiarities and challenges are described a priori.

• Printed, handwritten and online OCR efforts are being explored.

• Analyses based on the stages of a typical OCR pipeline.

摘要

Highlights•A literature review of the Nasta'liq and Naskh cursive script OCR.•The peculiarities and challenges are described a priori.•Printed, handwritten and online OCR efforts are being explored.•Analyses based on the stages of a typical OCR pipeline.

论文关键词：Optical character recognition,Ligature,Character

论文评审过程：Received 1 June 2013, Revised 29 August 2013, Accepted 30 September 2013, Available online 11 October 2013.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.09.037