Ms. Fadoua BOUAFIF SAMOUD received her Master degrees in Automatic and Signal processing from National School of Engineers of Tunis (ENIT) in June 2004. Her diploma of engineer in computer science is obtained from the Faculty of Science of Tunis (FST) in 2001. She is a member of the pattern recognition group of Signal Processing Research Laboratory (LSTS) at ENIT. She is also a member of a collaboration DAAD project “on the way of information society” between ENIT and the institute of telecommunication of Branshweig in Germany (IFN). She is currently a PhD. candidate under the supervision of Prof. ELLOUZE and Dr. SNOUSSI MADDOURI at Signal Processing Research Laboratory (LSTS), ENIT, Tunisia. Her research interests include segmentation of Arabic documents, segmentation of handwritten script, and image processing. The laboratoire de Système et Traitment du Signal LSTS, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, BP37, Belvédère, Tunis 1002, Tunisa (phone : +216 72874 700, fax : +216 72872 729, e-mail : fadoua.bouafif@fsegn.rnu.tn)