Automatic processing of Historical Arabic Documents: A comprehensive Survey
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Highlights：
• Challenges of automatic processing of historical Arabic documents (APHAD).
• Classification of APHAD applications into four tasks: Data analysis, Writer classification, Data classification and Data retrieval.
• For each application, a survey of existing approaches is presented.
• For each application, the existing solutions are discussed and recommendations are suggested.
• Existing datasets and softwares on APHAD applications are surveyed.
摘要
•Challenges of automatic processing of historical Arabic documents (APHAD).•Classification of APHAD applications into four tasks: Data analysis, Writer classification, Data classification and Data retrieval.•For each application, a survey of existing approaches is presented.•For each application, the existing solutions are discussed and recommendations are suggested.•Existing datasets and softwares on APHAD applications are surveyed.
论文关键词：Historical Arabic Documents,Writer identification,Data retrieval,Text analysis,Text recognition,Survey on Historical Arabic Documents
论文评审过程：Received 16 March 2019, Revised 10 October 2019, Accepted 27 November 2019, Available online 29 November 2019, Version of Record 13 December 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2019.107144
