14. A method for automatically recognizing Arabic text, comprising: acquiring a text image comprising one or more Arabic words each including one or more Arabic characters; identify a plurality of lines of Arabic text in the text image; segmenting one of the plurality of lines of text into Arabic words; digitizing at least one of the Arabic words to form a two-dimensional array of pixels each associated with a pixel value, wherein the pixel value is expressed in a binary number; dividing the one of the Arabic words into a plurality of line images; downsizing at least one of the plurality of line images to produce a downsized line image; serializing pixel values of pixels in each column of the downsized line image to form a string of serialized numbers, wherein the string of serialized numbers forms a text feature vector; and feeding the text feature vector into a Hidden Markov Model to recognize the one or more Arabic words including the Arabic characters.
14. A method for automatically recognizing Arabic text, comprising: acquiring a text image comprising one or more Arabic words each including one or more Arabic characters; identify a plurality of lines of Arabic text in the text image; segmenting one of the plurality of lines of text into Arabic words; digitizing at least one of the Arabic words to form a two-dimensional array of pixels each associated with a pixel value, wherein the pixel value is expressed in a binary number; dividing the one of the Arabic words into a plurality of line images; downsizing at least one of the plurality of line images to produce a downsized line image; serializing pixel values of pixels in each column of the downsized line image to form a string of serialized numbers, wherein the string of serialized numbers forms a text feature vector; and feeding the text feature vector into a Hidden Markov Model to recognize the one or more Arabic words including the Arabic characters. 20. The method of claim 14 , wherein the step of building an Arabic corpus comprises: automatically determining a writing style associated with one of the Arabic text files by the computer, wherein a writing-style index associated corresponding to the writing style is automatically stored in association with the one of the Arabic text files.