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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121034
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Arabic Document Classification by Deep Learning

Author 1: Taghreed Alghamdi
Author 2: Samia Snoussi
Author 3: Lobna Hsairi

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 12 Issue 10, 2021.

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Abstract: In this paper, we show how to classify Arabic document images using a convolutional neural network, which is one of the most common supervised deep learning algorithms. The main goal of using deep learning is its ability to automatically extract useful features from images, which eliminates the need for a manual feature extraction process. Convolutional neural networks can extract features from images through a convolution process involving various filters. We collected a variety of Arabic document images from various sources and passed them into a convolutional neural network classifier. We adopt a VGG16 pre-trained network trained on ImageNet to classify the dataset of four classes as handwritten, historical, printed, and signboard. For the document image classification, we used VGG16 convolutional layers, ran the dataset through them, and then trained a classifier on top of it. We extract features by fixing the pre-trained network's convolutional layers, then adding the fully connected layers and training them on the dataset. We update the network with the addition of dropout by adding after each max-pooling layer and to the fourteen and the seventeenth layers which are the fully connected layers. The proposed approach achieved a classification accuracy of 92%.

Keywords: Arabic document; document classification; deep learning; convolutional neural network (CNN); pre_trained network

Taghreed Alghamdi, Samia Snoussi and Lobna Hsairi, “Arabic Document Classification by Deep Learning” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 12(10), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121034

@article{Alghamdi2021,
title = {Arabic Document Classification by Deep Learning},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121034},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2021.0121034},
year = {2021},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {12},
number = {10},
author = {Taghreed Alghamdi and Samia Snoussi and Lobna Hsairi}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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