Nafath aims to be a key information resource for disseminating the facts about latest trends and innovation in the field of ICT Accessibility. It is published in English and Arabic languages on a quarterly basis and intends to be a window of information to the world, highlighting the pioneering work done in our field to meet the growing demands of ICT Accessibility and Assistive Technology products and services in Qatar and the Arab region.
As Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has gone through substantial improvements over the past decades, the Assistive Technology (AT) industry has utilized it as a crucial tool to serve as a foundation for developing breakthroughs in innovative AT solutions. AT...
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Since the mid-1940s, there has been extensive research and publications on character recognition. With most of the published work being on Latin characters, and Japanese and Chinese characters emerging in the mid-1960s. Despite almost a billion people worldwide using Arabic...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a generic term used to characterize technologies that recognize text within scanned documents, and photos, to help convert them into a digital format. OCR technology is used to convert virtually any kind of images containing written...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to computer processes for converting images of printed, typed, or handwritten texts into text files. A computer requires OCR software to perform this task. This allows retrieving the text in the image and to save it in a file that...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) plays a vital role in converting printed materials into digital text files. The use of OCR technology (OCR) has transformed productivity, increased engagement and motivation, and, most importantly, accelerated learning. The technology has...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the practice of extracting text from images. The process itself is becoming popular in terms of usage and research, as it spans multiple areas of science, including image processing, machine learning, information retrieval, and...
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Optical character recognition tools are experiencing a quiet revolution as aspiring software providers merge OCR with Machine Learning and Deep Learning. Therefore, data capturing software is instantaneously capturing information and understanding the content. In practice,...
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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that allows you to transform different types of documents into editable and searchable content, recognize and transform text or print documents, such as scanned paper documents, PDF files, or digital camera images, and...
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Making Social Media Accessible
This article will showcase some of the ways Twitter has been designed to be accessible to people with disabilities, thereby enabling everyone to share and access content in a manner that makes the most sense to them.
The article is...
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