Arabic script based language character recognition: Nasta'liq vs Naskh analysis

Abstract

Arabic and various Indic scripts received researcher attention after a long time of focus on East Asian and Western whereas this script is used by 1/4th of the world population by many languages in several countries. Arabic script is more complex as compared to Latin script. One of such difficulty with Arabic script is multiple writing styles. Naskh and Nastaliq are the two most commonly style adopted by Arabic script based languages. This paper compares both writing style and concludes that why work done for Naskh cannot be applied for Nasta'liq writing style.