Patent ID: 8588520
Filing Date: 2013-11-19
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. A character recognition method executed by a computer, the character recognition method comprising: specifying a character recognition target item from image data of the form; calculating a position and size of an image character in the specified character recognition target item; calculating a score that quantifies a possibility of handwriting or printing by analyzing the image character on the basis of characteristics of handwritten and printed characters; discriminating on the basis of the score whether the image character is handwritten or printed; calculating an average value of scores of characters of the recognition target item, and checking whether or not the recognition target item includes both handwritten and printed characters; and performing character recognition on each character of the recognition target item with an appropriate character recognition engine for a result of discriminating whether said each character is handwritten or printed and a result of checking whether the recognition target item includes both handwritten and printed characters, wherein: in discriminating whether the image character is handwritten or printed, the first to sixth scores are aggregated by weighting the first to sixth scores according to respective importance.