Najme Ghanbari - Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Zabol, Zabol

The present paper is a review of research on the recognition of Persian alphabetic and numeric characters in the last ten years. The goal is to provide researchers with the latest research findings for further research after discovering the gaps that still exist in this field, i.e. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the Farsi language. However, there has been a dramatic improvement in this field in the last decade as it will be discussed. Although the researchers have achieved very good results, there is still a gap due to the lack of commercial and functional software.

Farsi alphabetic characters recognition, Farsi numeric characters recognition, handwritten alphabetic and numeric characters, printed alphabetic and numeric characters