The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the world’s largest date producer.
It produces almost 400 date varieties in bulk. After harvesting,
if the dates are not processed timely (within harvesting
season), it may cost dearly to the date growers. In post harvesting
operations the date grading and sorting process is the
prime source of delay. The reason is that it is a repetitive, labor
intensive and time consuming process and it is carried out by
humans manually through visual inspection. The manual processing
pose added problems of maintaining the consistency
and uniformity in date grading. Therefore, a computer mediated
system that can mimic the human grading and sorting
process may adequately expedite the process as well it may sort