Character recognition in practice today and tomorrow

Author

Miletzki, Udo

Author_Institution

Siemens Electrocom GmbH, Konstanz, Germany

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

18-20 Aug 1997

Firstpage

902

Abstract

An outline of today´s state of the art OCR technology is given with its most important approaches from single character recognition to holistic word recognition and the co-evolution of hardware technology and pattern recognition capabilities is shown. The relation between font design and the design of an omnifont recognition system is illustrated. The economic relevance of todays´s OCR technology is discussed. The article concludes with reflections about future trends in the OCR field such as growing complexity of patterns and knowledge bases in OCR applications

Keywords

character sets; document image processing; economics; knowledge based systems; optical character recognition; technological forecasting; OCR technology; economic; font design; future trends; hardware technology; holistic word recognition; knowledge bases; omnifont recognition system; optical character recognition; pattern complexity; pattern recognition; single character recognition; state of the art; Bones; Character generation; Character recognition; Cultural differences; Keyboards; Manufacturing industries; Optical character recognition software; Pattern recognition; Reflection; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ulm

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7898-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1997.620642

Filename

620642