Title :
Character recognition in practice today and tomorrow
Author_Institution :
Siemens Electrocom GmbH, Konstanz, Germany
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;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1997., Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Ulm
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7898-4
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1997.620642
