Large Scale Font Independent Urdu Text Recognition System

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.06752v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2020 06:57:24 GMT
• Title: Large Scale Font Independent Urdu Text Recognition System
• Authors: Atique Ur Rehman, Sibt Ul Hussain
• Abstract summary: There exists no automated system that can reliably recognize printed Urdu text in images and videos across different fonts. We have developed Qaida, a large scale data set with 256 fonts, and a complete Urdu lexicon. We have also developed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based classification model which can recognize Urdu ligatures with 84.2% accuracy.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: OCR algorithms have received a significant improvement in performance recently, mainly due to the increase in the capabilities of artificial intelligence algorithms. However, this advancement is not evenly distributed over all languages. Urdu is among the languages which did not receive much attention, especially in the font independent perspective. There exists no automated system that can reliably recognize printed Urdu text in images and videos across different fonts. To help bridge this gap, we have developed Qaida, a large scale data set with 256 fonts, and a complete Urdu lexicon. We have also developed a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based classification model which can recognize Urdu ligatures with 84.2% accuracy. Moreover, we demonstrate that our recognition network can not only recognize the text in the fonts it is trained on but can also reliably recognize text in unseen (new) fonts. To this end, this paper makes following contributions: (i) we introduce a large scale, multiple fonts based data set for printed Urdu text recognition;(ii) we have designed, trained and evaluated a CNN based model for Urdu text recognition; (iii) we experiment with incremental learning methods to produce state-of-the-art results for Urdu text recognition. All the experiment choices were thoroughly validated via detailed empirical analysis. We believe that this study can serve as the basis for further improvement in the performance of font independent Urdu OCR systems.

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