Title :
Optical character recognition: An overview and an insight
Author :
Berchmans, Deepa ; Kumar, Sahoo Subhendu
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECE, PRSCET, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Abstract :
Many researches are going on in the field of optical character recognition (OCR) for the last few decades and a lot of articles have been published. Also a large number of OCR is available commercially. In this literature a review of the OCR history and the various techniques used for OCR development in the chronological order is being done.
Keywords :
optical character recognition; OCR history; optical character recognition; Character recognition; Feature extraction; Handwriting recognition; Hidden Markov models; Image recognition; Optical character recognition software; Optical Character Recognition; document analysis; glyph recognition; handwritten characters; intelligent character recognition; offline recognition; online recognition; pattern recognition; printed characters;
Conference_Titel :
Control, Instrumentation, Communication and Computational Technologies (ICCICCT), 2014 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kanyakumari
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-4191-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICCICCT.2014.6993174
