Real-time feedback engine for online jawi character recognition

Jawi is a type of cursive writing derived from the Arabic alphabets and adopted for writing the Malay language. The Jawi alphabet has 36 basic characters, in which 28 characters are similar to Arabic characters. Studies on online Jawi characters recognition are still minimal; most studies focus more on offline. Therefore, the online Jawi characters recognition engine has developed, involving two stages; the template modelling process and the recognition process using matching templates. The recognition engine developed can provide real-time feedback on the accuracy of Jawi characters writing activities by users. The recognition engine's feedback accuracy assessed using a comparative analysis method by looking at the agreement score between recognition engine feedback and experts' feedback. The Krippendorff's Alpha Reliability Coefficient Index (Krippendorff's ) agreement score was used to measure the agreement between the recognition engine feedback and experts' feedback. Krippendorff's agreement score assessment results found that the accuracy of recognition engine feedback was almost the same as the experts' feedback. Therefore, it can conclude that the recognition engine developed has high accuracy and can be used to recognise Jawi characters online.