A Web based system to capture outlines of Arabic fonts M. Sarfraz * , F.A. Razzak Department of Information and Computer Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, KFUPM # 1510, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia Received 30 December 2001; received in revised form 17 March 2002; accepted 4 July 2002 Abstract This paper presents a Web based system for the automatic capture of Arabic fonts. Thesystemisbasedonanalgorithm,whichincorporatesvariousfeaturesincludingthe detection of boundary, discovering corner and break points, and fitting the curve. The workdone,inthispaper,fullyautomatetheprocessandproducesbestoptimalresults. MoreovertheautomatedsystemdevelopedisdeployedovertheWebusingclient/server model and state of the art technology. Ó 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Web; Font; Corner points; Contour; Spline 1.Introduction Today, the systems, tools, and applications through World Wide Web have revolutionized the way people used to think, act, and react in the past. This revolutioncanbeobservedinalldisciplinesoflifeincludingbusiness,education, government, entertainment, health, defense, etc. Although, a large amount of developments, in this area, have taken place in the last few years but it is too Information Sciences 150 (2003) 177–193 www.elsevier.com/locate/ins * Corresponding author. Tel.: +966-3-860-2763; fax: +966-3-860-1562. E-mail addresses: sarfraz@ccse.kfupm.edu.sa, sarfraz@kfupm.edu.sa (M. Sarfraz). 0020-0255/02/$ - see front matter Ó 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved. PII:S0020-0255(02)00376-6