Optical Character Recognition software: A Comparative Evaluation Study for Information Retrieval | ||||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||||
| Article 3, Volume 6, Issue 4, October 2019, Page 142-170 PDF (1.41 MB) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2019.74320 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Adel Nabil Ali* | ||||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة بنها | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| In recent times ,There were many Arab digitization projects for their information resources, such as: digital repository of Egyptian university theses, and the digitization of information resources at Dar Al-Kutub in Egypt and another Arabic projects. But these resources have been digitized in the images formats and we cannot search in the full text and retrieved only though keywords that are very limited so, the Arabic text remained locked in these images, and can not take advantage of its texts in the search and retrieval and Blocking a lot of information that can be used This study aims to identify Arabic OCR software, its characteristics and its accuracy that can solve this problem. The most important problems of OCR software with Arabic characters are characteristics of these complex characters, both in structure and in the way of writing. The study depended on the evaluation methodology using a data collection tool: a checklist The study found that there is a rar of Arabic OCR software which is divided into commercial, open source and free on the Internet. and the study show that only one program reached the accuracy rate (100%) in the recognition of Arabic texts, ((Google Drive OCR), and the number of (4) programs reached a rate of accuracy (90%) in the recognition of Arabic texts The study recommended that Arab information institutions should develop software to recognize Arabic characters with high accuracy, and that scientific research bodies and research centers provide budgets for the development of OCR techniques and Scientific research provide budgets for the development of arabic OCR techniques | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Arabic optical characters recognition (AOCR) – Digitization – OCR – information Retrieval | ||||
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