The Arabic handwriting Data Base

The ADAB database (The Arabic handwriting Data Base) was developed to advance the research and development of Arabic on-line handwritten systems. This database is developed in cooperation between the Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik (IfN) and Research Groups in Intelligent Machines, University of Sfax, Tunisia. The text written is from 937 Tunisian town/village names. A pre-label assigned to each file consists of the postcode in a sequence of Numeric Character References, which stored in the UPX file format.