KAFD: Arabic Font Database
| Item Name: | KAFD: Arabic Font Database |
| Author(s): | Hamzah Luqman, Sabri A. Mahmoud, Sameh Awaida |
| LDC Catalog No.: | LDC2016T21 |
| ISBN: | 1-58563-773-4 |
| ISLRN: | 859-947-665-680-4 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.35111/hmnj-ks39 |
| Release Date: | October 19, 2016 |
| Member Year(s): | 2016 |
| DCMI Type(s): | StillImage, Text |
| Data Source(s): | journal articles |
| Application(s): | handwriting recognition |
| Language(s): | Arabic |
| Language ID(s): | ara |
| License(s): |
LDC User Agreement for Non-Members |
| Online Documentation: | LDC2016T21 Documents |
| Licensing Instructions: | Subscription & Standard Members, and Non-Members |
| Citation: | Luqman, Hamzah, Sabri Mahmoud, and Sameh Awaida. KAFD: Arabic Font Database LDC2016T21. Hard Drive. Philadelphia: Linguistic Data Consortium, 2016. |
Introduction
KAFD: Arabic Font Database was developed by King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals and Qassim University. It is comprised of approximately 2.5 million scanned Arabic printed pages in a variety of fonts, sizes and resolutions along with corresponding transcripts. KAFD was designed for research in Arabic text recognition.
Data
The scanned Arabic texts were collected from publications covering various subjects such as religion, medicine, science and history. Texts were printed in 40 different fonts, 10 sizes and four styles. Scans were made at 100, 200, 300 and 600 dpi (dots per inch).
The database is available in two formats: at the page level and at the line level. Images are presented as TIFF images and transcripts are in plain text format. Individual font folders are compressed into RAR archives.
The data is divided into training, validation and test sets.
Samples
Please view this image sample and text sample.
Updates
None at this time.