Health insurance card automatic recognition method and apparatus, as well as the elderly medical insurance card automatic recognition method and apparatus

摘要

PURPOSE: To automatically confirm the health insurance cards and also the health insurance cards for the aged and to improve the business processing efficiency of these cards. CONSTITUTION: The image of a health insurance card 1 is read by a color scanner 2 in response to the operation of a keyboard 5, ana true image data are supplied to a processing part 4. The part 4 recognizes every item of the card 1. If an error message, etc., are produced when the items of the card 1 are recognized, they are shown at a display part 3. At the same time, a storage part 6 can store the data corresponding to the items of the card 1 which are recognized at the part 4. These stored data can also be printed out via an output part 7.