ADAB database

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. An InkML file including trajectory information and a plot image of the word trajectory are also generated. Additional information about the writer can also be provided.

All documents and papers that uses the ADAB database will acknowledge the use of the database by including an appropriate citation to the following:

[1] H. Boubaker, A. Elbaati, N. Tagougui, M. Kherallah, H. Elabed, and A. M. Alimi, “Online Arabic Databases and Applications,” Book chapter in : Märgner, V., El Abed, H. (eds) “Guide to OCR for Arabic Scripts,” Chp. Part IV pp 541 – 557 , 2012 , Springer.

[2] M. Kherallah, N. Tagougui, A. M. Alimi, H. El Abed and V. Margner, “Online Arabic handwriting recognition competition”, In International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pp. 1454-1458 , 2011.

[3] H. El Abed, M. Kherallah, V. Margner and A. M. Alimi, “on-line Arabic handwriting recognition competition ADAB database and participating systems”, International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, volume 13, July 2010.