학술논문

Arabic OCR evaluation tool
Document Type
Conference
Source
2016 7th International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT) Computer Science and Information Technology (CSIT), 2016 7th International Conference on. :1-6 Jul, 2016
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Optical character recognition software
Shape
Computer science
Performance evaluation
Information technology
Character recognition
performance evaluation
Arabic
OCR
Arabic OCR
evaluation metrics
Language
Abstract
Performance evaluation of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems is an essential task for OCR systems development. However, studies in Arabic OCR suffer from the lack of proper performance evaluation metrics and the availability of evaluation tools. Although the literature provides typical performance metrics, such as character accuracy and word accuracy for OCR performance evaluation, these metrics are not sufficient for evaluating Arabic OCR. This paper presents an open source automated software tool with various metrics for the evaluation of Arabic OCR performance. The developed tool is available for OCR researchers, thus it can be applied for ranking different OCR algorithms.