OPTICAL SCRIPT READER: Binary Texture Innovation by Bilal Mohammad Bataineh, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah, Khairuddin Omar

This book highlights the importance of document image analysis and recognition (DIAR) and its techniques to extract information from document images. In line with that, the state-of-the-art describes DIAR applications with emphasis on Optical Font Recognition (OFR) or Optical Script Reader. In addition, this book presents techniques for pre-processing and feature extraction techniques of DIAR, with focus on binary image and texture analysis techniques. Therefore, in this book, three points are highlighted; first is a proposed adaptive binarization method for pre-processing, second is a proposed statistical texture analysis technique via binary images for feature extraction, and third is a developed OFR framework for Arabic calligraphy (OFR-AC).