Abstract
This paper presents an algorithm for automatic outline capture of digital character images, particularly suitable for non-Roman languages like Arabic. In most of the desktop publishing systems, the shapes of the characters are stored in the computer memory in terms of their outlines, and the outlines are expressed as cubic Bezier curves. The process of producing outlines includes various steps, detection of boundary, discovering corner points and break points and fitting the curve. This process becomes slow and inaccurate if there is any involvement of humans in any of the above steps. The work done, in this paper, fully automates the process and produces the best optimal results