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Glyph Identification and Character Recognition for Sindhi OCR

Keywords: Optical Character Recognition, Glyphs, Sindhi, Character Identification

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 36 ,  Issue 4

NISAR AHMED MEMON , FATIMA ABBASI   , SHEHNILA ZARDAR   ,

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