Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition

Arabic handwriting recognition. Since 2002 the freely available IfN/ENIT-Database is used by many groups all over the world to develop Arabic handwriting recognition systems. This database was the basis for the last years competitions for systems recognizing Arabic handwritten words. Whereas these competitions were used on a fixed lexicon with 973 Tunisian town names, this ICFHR competition uses as a next step the same background of the IfN/ENIT-Database but now with new collected data of freely written text of about five lines. The fourth competition takes place at the 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2010), November 16-18, 2010, Kolkata, India.