Arabic script analysis with connection points

An Arabic script handwriting synthesis system, comprising:

• circuitry configured to:
• access character shape images of Arabic characters of the Arabic alphabet, wherein the character shape images comprise one or more connection points,
• determine a connection point location between two or more character shapes based on a calculated right edge position and a calculated left edge position of the character shape images,
• extract character features that indicate Arabic language attributes and width attributes of the Arabic characters of the character shape images, the Arabic language attributes including character Kashida attributes, wherein the character features are extracted at the one or more connection points,
• identify Kashida extensions as part of the character Kashida attributes,
• isolate the identified Kashida extensions from pepper noise components based on a predetermined ground-truth label, by constraining the extracted character features to be two consecutive characters,
• extract the identified Kashida extensions based on the predetermined ground-truth label, and
• generate images of Arabic cursive text based on the character Kashida attributes and the width attributes.