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Lexicon Reduction for Urdu/Arabic Script Based Character Recognition: A Multilingual OCR

Keywords: Urdu Optical Character Recognition, Multilingual Optical Character Recognition, Naskh, Nasta’liq

Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology

Volume 35 ,  Issue 2

SAEEDA  NAZ , ARIF IQBAL  UMAR , MUHAMMAD IMRAN  RAZZAK ,

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