US Patent 10002301 System, apparatus, and method for arabic handwriting recognition

A system, a non-transitory computer readable medium, and a method for Arabic handwriting recognition are provided. The method includes acquiring an input image representative of a handwritten Arabic text from a user, partitioning the input image into a plurality of regions, determining a bag of features representation for each region of the plurality of regions, modeling each region independently by multi stream discrete Hidden Markov Model (HMM), and identifying a text based on the HMM models.