Automatic outline capture of Arabic fonts

M. Sarfraz; M. A. Khan

doi:10.1016/S0020-0255(01)00176-1

Automatic outline capture of Arabic fonts

M. Sarfraz^*
, M. A. Khan

^*Corresponding author for this work

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

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Abstract

This paper presents an algorithm for automatic outline capture of digital character images, particularly suitable for non-Roman languages like Arabic. In most of the desktop publishing systems, the shapes of the characters are stored in the computer memory in terms of their outlines, and the outlines are expressed as cubic Bezier curves. The process of producing outlines includes various steps, detection of boundary, discovering corner points and break points and fitting the curve. This process becomes slow and inaccurate if there is any involvement of humans in any of the above steps. The work done, in this paper, fully automates the process and produces the best optimal results.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	269-281
Number of pages	13
Journal	Information Sciences
Volume	140
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/S0020-0255(01)00176-1
State	Published - Feb 2002

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Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the support of SABIC and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, under the Project #FT/003, in the development of this work.

Keywords

Break points
Corner points
Cubic Bezier
Digital character images
Outline
Significant points

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Software
Control and Systems Engineering
Computer Science Applications
Information Systems and Management
Artificial Intelligence

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