Patent Document ID: 8908961
Application ID: 14259309

Base Claim:
1. A method for automatically recognizing Arabic text, comprising: acquiring a text image comprising one or more Arabic words each including one or more Arabic characters; identify a plurality of lines of Arabic text in the text image; segmenting one of the plurality of lines of Arabic text into Arabic words; digitizing at least one of the Arabic words to form a two-dimensional array of pixels each associated with a pixel value, wherein the pixel value is expressed in a binary number; dividing the one of the Arabic words into a plurality of line images; defining a plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images, wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises a group of adjacent pixels; serializing pixel values of pixels in each of the plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images to form a binary cell number; forming a text feature vector according to binary cell numbers obtained from the plurality of cells in one of the plurality of line images; and feeding the text feature vector into a Hidden Markov Model to recognize the one or more Arabic words including the Arabic characters.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the two-dimensional array of pixels comprises a plurality of rows in a first direction and a plurality of columns in a second direction, wherein the Arabic characters in the one of the Arabic words are aligned substantially along the first direction, wherein the plurality of line images are sequentially aligned along the first direction.