---
task_categories:
- image-to-text
language:
- ar
tags:
- OCR
- 'Optical Character Recognition '
- Arabic OCR
- 'arabic '
- ocr
- Textline images
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# KFUPM Handwritten Arabic TexT (KHATT) database 
### Version 1.0 (September 2012 Release)

The database contains handwritten Arabic text images and its ground-truth developed for 
research in the area of Arabic handwritten text. It contains the line images and their ground-truth. It was used for the pilot experimentation as reported in the paper: <ins> S. A. Mahmoud, I. Ahmad, M. Alshayeb, W. G. Al-Khatib, M. T. Parvez, G. A. Fink, V. Margner, and H. EL Abed, “KHATT: Arabic Offline 
Handwritten Text Database </ins>, In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR 2012), Bari, Italy, 2012, pp. 447-452, IEEE Computer Society.