Assas-band, an Affix-Exception-List Based Urdu Stemmer. - Qurat ul Ain Akram; Asma Naseer; Sarmad Hussain (ALR7@IJCNLP, 2009)

Adapting Tesseract for Complex Scripts: An Example for Urdu Nastalique. - Qurat ul Ain Akram; Sarmad Hussain; Aneta Niazi; Umair Anjum; Faheem Irfan (Document Analysis Systems, 2014)

Nastalique segmentation-based approach for Urdu OCR. - Sarmad Hussain; Salman Ali; Qurat ul Ain Akram (Int. J. Document Anal. Recognit., 2015)

Ligature-based font size independent OCR for Noori Nastalique writing style. - Qurat ul Ain Akram; Sarmad Hussain (ASAR, 2017)

Improving Urdu Recognition Using Character-Based Artistic Features of Nastalique Calligraphy. - Qurat ul Ain Akram; Sarmad Hussain (IEEE Access, 2019)