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This Arabic Handwriting Recognition Competition aims to bring together researchers working
on Arabic handwriting recognition. Since 2002 the freely available If N/ENIT-Database is used
by many groups all over the world to develop Arabic handwriting recognition systems. This
database was the basis for the last years competitions for systems recognizing Arabic
handwritten words. Whereas these competitions were used on a fixed lexicon with 973 Tunisian
town names, this ICFHR competition uses as a next step the same background of the
If N/ENIT-Database but now with new collected data of freely written text of about five lines.
The fourth competition takes place at the 12th International Conference on Frontiers in
Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR2010), November 16-18, 2010, Kolkata, India.
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Evaluation Process:
The objective is to run each Arabic handwritten word recognizer, trained on the If N/ENIT-
Database, version 2.0 and on a set of the new collected data. A recognizer may return up to 10
candidates for each classification that not only the first ranked result can be used for
comparison but also the correct result between the 5 or 10 candidates will be used for
comparison. The following tasks are part of evaluation:
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