Arabic text images watermarking: a survey of current techniques

Digital media has many challenges today such as the violation of copy and paste, illegal use, and weak copyrights protection. Digital watermarking comes to solve these problems by making authority information hidden in digital media. This survey presents a discussion of watermarking for text image especially Arabic text images. This survey talks about Arabic text digital watermarking techniques: Discrete Wavelets Transform (DWT), Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT), Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), Spatial domain watermarking and Frequency domain watermarking.