NEWS

On the basis of the IFN/ENIT-database the second Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition will be organized at ICDAR 2007 in Curitiba , Brazil. For further information we recommend the following pages: ICDAR 2007 Competition homepage or Institut for Communications Technology - Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition homepage.

Our IFN/ENIT-database for hand-written Arabic words was officially presented at CIFED'02.

At the moment 30 groups (15 different countries) are working with the IFN/ENIT-database. Listed in alphabetical order below:

Algeria
Canada
China

Lebanon
France
Germany
Malaysia(*)
Marocco
Mauritania
Romania
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Tunisia
UK
USA
Iran

The current version is: v1.0p2 (new)
Patches are made available from time to time, and are obtained from our download site.

What's new in database version 1.0 patch level 2 ?
Label errors and image cut errors are fixed and topline information ground truth are added (in set_a only at the moment).

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September 06
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