Advances and Limitations in Open Source Arabic-Script OCR: A Case Study

This work presents an accuracy study of the open source OCR engine, Kraken, on the leading Arabic scholarly journal, al-Abhath. In contrast with other commercially available OCR engines, Kraken is shown to be capable of producing highly accurate Arabic-script OCR. The study also assesses the relativ...

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Main Authors: Benjamin Kiessling, Gennady Kurin, Kader Smail, Matthew Thomas Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Library of Humanities 2021-12-01
Series:Digital Studies
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Online Access:https://www.digitalstudies.org/article/id/8094/