A database of printed Jawi character image

Abstract

In this paper we present a printed Jawi character database for recognition research. Currently, there are Latin or Arabic character databases, while the database of Jawi character has not existed yet, neither printed nor handwritten. The database was developed to help the researcher analising and evaluating Jawi character recognition method. The characters, words and sentences were typed in a word processing application, then printed and scanned into image format. The database contains 1524 characters from four types of fonts. Besides that, the database also includes 168 printed word and sentence image.