Title :
The effects of image enhancement in OCR systems: a prototype
Author :
Hashemi, Ray R. ; Owen, Danny ; Smith, Mark S. ; Flanigan, Tim ; Talburt, John R.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Arkansas Univ., Little Rock, AR, USA
Abstract :
The accuracy of the optical character recognition (OCR) systems is highly dependent upon the quality of the image. We investigate and propose solutions to several issues that can arise in the processing of binary images of scanned, typeset text. The issues of concern are image residues from adjacent lines, character touching, boldface character recognition, and text repairing
Keywords :
image enhancement; optical character recognition; OCR systems; binary image processing; boldface character recognition; character touching; image enhancement; image quality; image residues; optical character recognition; scanned typeset text; text repairing; Character recognition; Containers; Image analysis; Image converters; Image enhancement; Image generation; Joining processes; Optical character recognition software; Prototypes; Telephony;
Conference_Titel :
Information Technology: Coding and Computing, 2000. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Las Vegas, NV
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0540-6
DOI :
10.1109/ITCC.2000.844276
