Effective Character Restoration and Enhancement for Arabic Text Documents

Polar Rain proposes to develop fast and efficient character restoration and image enhancement algorithms and software for Arabic text document images. Our proposed approach brings innovative solution designed to work on degraded Arabic text document images combining non-language specific image enhancement methods with Arabic specific character restoration algorithm. Computation models used in algorithms takes advantage of Arabic character shapes and appearance features to remove artifacts, marks, general noise during enhancement process. Proposed software design allows seamless integration with third party OCR products through set of application programming interfaces and provides significant increase in their recognition accuracy on degraded Arabic document images. We will deliver and demonstrate our prototype software with fully integrated COTS Arabic OCR product as well as Polar Rain’s OCR products.