TY - BOOK AU - Farhan Mohammed Ali Nashwan AU - Mohsen Abdalrazk Rashwan , TI - Towards holistic technique for a completely Arabic word OCR system / PY - 2014/// CY - Cairo : PB - Farhan Mohammed Ali Nashwan , KW - Data reduction KW - Discrete cosine transform KW - Holistic Arabic word OCR system N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Electronics and Communication; Issued also as CD N2 - Firstly, a simple Holistic approach for Arabic OCR is presented to capture total information for the whole Arabic word to reduce the possible vocabulary for the OCR classifier engine. A clustering accuracy of 99.% is achieved through selecting few word candidates (within average 115 words per cluster) from a large lexicon of more than 356K words. This vocabulary size has a good coverage for the Arabic Language. This means that the problem facing the OCR classifier is tremendously reduced, and much higher accuracy can be expected for the OCR systems. Secondly, we have implemented an Arabic OCR system using the Holistic approach. A preliminary Arabic OCR system based on the holistic approach that is font size independent achieved good results UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -