The invention provides a print-form Arabic alphabet identification method based on boundary characteristic, wherein the upside, downside, left and right boundaries is regarded as a wave, each boundary is regarded as an assembly of a series of wave elements, and the following boundary characteristics are extracted therefrom: the number of the component wave, the number of the zero line, the length of the first zero line in the right boundary, the length of the first zero line in the downside boundary, the length of the longest zero line in the upside boundary, the length of the longest zero line in the right boundary, the length of the longest zero line in the upside boundary, the length of the longest zero line in the downside boundary and the number of the positive line in the upside boundary, moreover, the height width ratio of the alphabets and the alphabet auxiliary part are involved as the identification characteristics, finally, each print-form Arabic alphabet is identified by using four decision trees according to the four kinds of formats of the alphabets-the independent, the beginning, the middle and the end.