@article{(Open Science Index):https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1702,
	  title     = {Urdu Nastaleeq Optical Character Recognition},
	  author    = {Zaheer Ahmad and  Jehanzeb Khan Orakzai and  Inam Shamsher and  Awais Adnan},
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	  institution	= {},
	  abstract     = {This paper discusses the Urdu script characteristics,
Urdu Nastaleeq and a simple but a novel and robust technique to
recognize the printed Urdu script without a lexicon. Urdu being a
family of Arabic script is cursive and complex script in its nature, the
main complexity of Urdu compound/connected text is not its
connections but the forms/shapes the characters change when it is
placed at initial, middle or at the end of a word. The characters
recognition technique presented here is using the inherited
complexity of Urdu script to solve the problem. A word is scanned
and analyzed for the level of its complexity, the point where the level
of complexity changes is marked for a character, segmented and
feeded to Neural Networks. A prototype of the system has been
tested on Urdu text and currently achieves 93.4% accuracy on the
average.},
	    journal   = {International Journal of Computer and Information Engineering},
	  volume    = {1},
	  number    = {8},
	  year      = {2007},
	  pages     = {2380 - 2383},
	  ee        = {https://publications.waset.org/pdf/1702},
	  url   	= {https://publications.waset.org/vol/8},
	  bibsource = {https://publications.waset.org/},
	  issn  	= {eISSN: 1307-6892},
	  publisher = {World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology},
	  index 	= {Open Science Index 8, 2007},
	}