Samia Snoussi Maddouri, received her diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) from the faculty of science of Tunis in 1995, Master in system and signal processing and doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) degrees in electrical engineering from the National engineering school of Tunis (ENIT), in 1997 and 2003 respectively. Since 1995, she has been working as university teacher in different Tunisien institutes. Currently she is a member of the research staff in the Image and signal processing laboratory at ENIT and teaching staff at faculty of computer science and information technologies at Jeddah university in Saudi Arabia. She worked as chef of computer science department in Taiba university. Her main areas of research are image processing and pattern recognition. Currently, she is working on Document segmentation and analysis methods and Arabic script recognition. She developed recognizer for handwritten words of Tunisian town names of IFN/ENIT database. Structural global primitives and local Fourier descriptors with a Transparent Neural Network based recognizer are the key features of her solution. Since 1998 she is also working on Document segmentation methods, at the beginning on bank checks and then on different text documents printed and handwritten. The distinction between Arabic and Latin handwritten and printed script is also one on her area of research. These Works are done in close cooperation with Braunschweig Technical University, Germany. She is one of the first developers of the IfN/ENIT-Database in 2002 (used by more than 100 research groups from more than 30 countries). She published more than 40 papers including journal papers. She was a member of DAAD cooperation project "on the Way to the Information Society: Branshweig-Tunis" during 3 year and participates to the organization of workshops in this field and represents the members of her laboratory and the Tunisian young academics women in the DAAD meeting of Project Representatives in the Programme German-Arab/Iranien Higher Education Dialogue: Dialogue through Cooperation at the Technical University, Germany in 2008. Actually I am a member of a the project intitled "Innovated Integrated Intelligent and Mobile System for tutorial and guiding of HAJJ steps based on geo-localization (GPS)".