King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Mohammad Husni Najib Yahia

Wasfi G Al-Khatib

The method for retrieval of Arabic historical manuscripts using Latent Semantic Indexing approaches the problem of manuscripts indexing and retrieval by automatic indexing of Arabic historical manuscripts through word spotting, using 'Text Image' similarity of keywords. The similarity is computed using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). The method involves a manuscript page preprocessing step, a segmentation step, and a feature extraction step. Feature extraction utilizes a circular polar grid feature set. Once the salient features have been extracted, indexing of historical Arabic manuscripts using LSI is performed in support of content-based image retrieval (CBIR).

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Al-Ahsaa, Saudi Arabia

Mohammad Husni Najib Yahia