ASM Based Synthesis of Handwritten Arabic Text Pages

Table 4

Validation of the segmentation method.

Database	IESK-arDB		IESK-arDB-Syn
Number of word samples	2540		9000
Measure
Error per word	1.67	0.13	1.74	0.024
Error per letter	0.35	0.026	0.34	0.0045
Over segmentation (per word)	0.79	0.097	0.86	0.0066
Under segmentation (per word)	0.87	0.071	0.88	0.019
Perfect segmentation (per word)	0.17	0.0019	0.13	0.0067