A proposed feature extraction algorithm for handwriting Arabic words. The proposed method uses a 4 levels discrete wavelet transform (DWT) on binary image. sliding window on wavelet space and computes the stander derivation for each window. The extracted features were classified with multiple Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. The proposed method simulated with a proposed data set from different writers.
1.IntroductionThe handwriting recognition process means converting the handwriting text images into understandable text by the computer and by many applications such as postal address reading for mail sorting purposes, cheques recognition and word spotting on a handwritten text page [1].Offline recognition to Arabic handwriting is still very challenging because the writing styles is defferted from person to other, Also for the same person at different times . Because of the coursive nature of the Arabic script and the similar appearance of some Arabic characters makes the handwriting recognition difficult task. the recognition system has several stages such as Image acquisition, preprocessing, feature extraction and classification / recognition.Achieving high recognition accuracy depends mainly on the used feature selection method [2].The first stage in any recognition system is preprocessing which tries to reduce the noise data and keep only the desired information and make the next operation (feature extraction process) easy to implement. Moreover, the second stage is feature extraction and selection; they are extracting useful information from the binary handwriting word