This paper presents a text line segmentation method for printed or handwritten historical Arabic documents. Documents are first classified into 2 classes using a K-means scheme. These classes correspond to document complexity (easy or not eas

Shape Arabic text on a character basis.

BiCon, short for Bidirectional-Console, is a tool which allows the usage of Arabic on Linux nix consoles. BiCon allows the user to read, write or view Arabic in text consoles using any existing application without any changes.