PROGRAM FOR READING CHARACTERS AND CHARACTER READER AS WELL AS METHOD FOR READING CHARACTERS

摘要

As the invention relates to a program (OCR application (1)) for capabilities to a computer connected to the image pickup means (camera 2) having a moving picture photographing function as a character reading apparatus, the accuracy of the readout process and to the challenges that increase significantly. Character recognition processing section 11 in the application 1, and is input with a moving image of the character string generated by the camera (2), repeating the process for recognizing a character included in the image of one frame is executed. Analysis processing unit 12, and by contrast in units of the characters the character recognition result of each time according to the time axis, fixed to a recognition result appearance as occurrence rate exceeds a reference value determined in advance in succession recognition processing than the predetermined number of times performed, for the input and output interface 14, and it outputs the final recognition result. ;