PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a word recognition device capable of recognizing a word with higher accuracy, and further to provide a word recognition method and a paper sheet processing device provided with the word recognition device.;SOLUTION: A word recognition device comprises: a word dictionary for storing a plurality of words; image receiving means for receiving an image containing words; word image extracting means for extracting a word image for each word from the image; character candidate extracting means for extracting a character candidate from the word image; analytical matching means that performs recognition with respect to the character candidate, and calculates a first evaluation value for each word stored in the word dictionary; overall matching means for calculating a second evaluation value on the basis of the word image and a word model for each word stored in the word dictionary; integrated evaluation value calculating means that integrates the first evaluation value and the second evaluation value to calculate a third evaluation value; and outputting means for outputting the third evaluation value calculated by the integrated evaluation value calculating means.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT
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