Judul: Aplikasi Pencari Info Obat dengan Masukan Citra Teks Kemasan Obat Berbasis Android Menggunakan Tesseract OCR Engine
Abstrak: Detailed information on drug is usually written on a leaflet that can only be read when the package has been opened. It is difficult for consumers who just want to know the detailed information of certain drug to decide whether the drug will be bought or not. A solution is needed to convert drug brand text image into editable text, so that it can be used as a keyword query for drug info searching on the internet. Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a process to convert image into editable text. Tesseract performs several processes to identify drug brand text image. The processes are image preprocessing, feature extraction, segmentation, and word recognition. This research developed an Android application to recognize drug brand text image. Tesseract is used because it has good accuracy in recognizing text with serif and sans serif font which have far density between characters. Drug packaging input image of the application can be taken from a camera or gallery. The best accuracy of this application in recognizing characters with 70 drug packaging images reached 96.80%.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University, Tessera, optical character recognition, drug, Android

Judul: Aplikasi Android untuk Pengenalan Citra Karakter Jepang dengan Library Tesseract
Abstrak: Japanese is one of difficult language to learn because the writing is relatively complicated and it has three kind of writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji. In this study, the Japanese character recognition system based on Android is designed to recognize Japanese character image and translate it into Indonesian using the library Tesseract OCR (Optical Character Recognition). OCR is a technique to convert non digital text into digital text or literally be interpreted as optical character recognition. In this study there were five functional requirements taking a picture with a camera, taking pictures form gallery, the conversion from image to text, text editing of Japanese character form OCR results, and display the results of Japanese text translations. Based on 10 samples of Japanese characters that have been tested, the accuracy values obtained from the test image from the camera around 80% and 94% image from the gallery. Besides test of applications using the questionnaire reached 91%. Thus this application is expected to be able to recognize the image of Japanese characters and translate them into Indonesian according to user needs.
Keyword: Bogor Agricultural University (IPB), Text., Image, Tesseract OCR, Android, Indonesian, Japanase

Judul: The Effects of Variance of Interest rate to Variance of Annuity Future Values
Abstrak: Time value of money is a concept that refers to the difference of the value of money due to time difference. The value of money for present time would not be the same as the value of money in the future. The value of money for present time is called as Present Value (PV) of the money and the value of money for future time is called Future Value (FV) of the money. Determination the value of money, for present and future time, depends on the time and rate of return. The value of money is determined by several factors such as inflation, fluctuation of interest rates, and government policy in securities and taxation. Due to fluctuation of the value of money we need a FV formulation, it is useful for knowing whether an investment can be profitable or not, and this information is useful also in budget analysis. Annuity is defined as a series of payments made for a specific period. The payment, fixed or varied, can be made at the beginning or at the end of the period. Annuity paid at the beginning of the period is called annuity-due and annuity paid at the end of the period is called immediate annuity-certain. The accumulated value of the annuity after few years later is called as a final value or a future value. Burnecki et al. (2003) have discussed about the FV of a fixed-rate annuity in which payments are made according to the arithmetic or geometric series. They have also examined FV for annuities in which payments are made according to arithmetic or geometric series with random rates of interest. This paper examines FV for annuity-due in which payments are made according to arithmetic or geometric series with interest rates as a random variable, which is normal distribution ,  . Future value formula is expressed in recursive form. FV for annuity-due which payments are made according to the arithmetic or geometric series with random rates of interest is calculated by theoretical way and simulation way. The random rates of interest is denoted as k k i  i  , where k i an independent random variable; i is a constant and k  is a random variable which has normal distribution ,  . By using the determined parameters, a sequence of random rates of interest are generated for theoretical calculation. Meanwhile for the simulation, the random rates of interest is generated 1000 times for the simulation. The generated data give mean value, variance, and standard deviation. Moreover, error of mean value, variance, and standard deviation from the theoretical and simulation results are calculated. Error calculation uses Symmetric Mean Absolute Percentage Error (SMAPE). The smaller the value of SMAPE is the more accurate the simulation. The interest rate variances are varied from 0.000036 to 0.0001 to study the relationship between variance of rates of interest and variance of future value. The theoretical and simulation results show that when the variance of random rates of interest increases, then the variance of FV increases linearly. FV of the annuity-due in
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