The character recognition device, being character recognition manner, and the character recognition device which recognizes

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem wherein, in a character recognition device, limited feature definition and identification algorithms can not completely distinguish a background from characters to cause many character candidates in the background part and ineffective character string estimation by a language model.;SOLUTION: A character recognition device for recognizing characters in an image has the first stage character recognition means 21 for scanning an input image to segment local images and extract features and for deciding character candidates according to similarities between the features and features of characters registered in a dictionary, and one or more different feature character recognition means 22-1 to 22-N for narrowing the character candidates according to similarities of features different from the features of each decided character candidate.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI