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This dataset is part of a research project, pending availability of further funding. The current version of the dataset contains 25114 samples of 109 unique Arabic words that cover all possible shapes of all Arabic alphabet letters. The samples were collected from 907 writers. In its current form, the dataset can be used for the problem of closed-vocabulary Arabic handwritten word recognition.
You can download the dataset from here.
We hope you find this dataset useful. In case you use it, please cite the following paper.
Mohamed E. Hussein, Marwan Torki, Ahmed Elsallamy, and Mahmoud Fayyaz, "AlexU-Word: A New Dataset for Isolated-Word Closed-Vocabulary Offline Arabic Handwriting Recognition," arXiv:1411.4670 [cs.CV], November 2014. [pdf][bibtex][data]