Indonesian Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Vol 21, No 1: January 2021

Corpus-based technique for improving Arabic OCR system

Ahmed Hussain Aliwy (University of Kufa)
Basheer Al-Sadawi (University of Kufa)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jan 2021

Abstract

An optical character recognition (OCR) refers to a process of converting the text document images into editable and searchable text. OCR process poses several challenges in particular in the Arabic language due to it has caused a high percentage of errors. In this paper, a method, to improve the outputs of the Arabic Optical character recognition (AOCR) Systems is suggested based on a statistical language model built from the available huge corpora. This method includes detecting and correcting non-word and real words error according to the context of the word in the sentence. The results show that the percentage of improvement in the results is up to (98%) as a new accuracy for AOCR output. 

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