TY - JOUR T1 - New Preprocessing Methods for Hand-Written Arabic Word AU - , Faouzi Bouchareb AU - , Mouldi Bedda AU - , Salim Ouchetati JO - Asian Journal of Information Technology VL - 5 IS - 6 SP - 609 EP - 613 PY - 2006 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1682-3915 DO - ajit.2006.609.613 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ajit.2006.609.613 KW - Arabic word recognition KW -baseline correction KW -slant correction KW -smoothing image KW -Hough Transform KW -intersection points KW -coin point KW -end points KW -skeletonization AB - This study describes new preprocessing methods for hand-written Arabic word using Hough Transform and geometrical processing applied on the skeleton chain list, using characteristic points (end points, intersection points and coin points) of the word in order to estimate and correct a baseline and slant of the word. We use these algorithms in order to obtain an aligned word which can be well segmented and recognized. The results show that these methods are very powerful for most word images on the Algerian cities name database. The result image is useful for the holistic approach and segmentation approach. ER -