Patent ID: 7570842

Claim:
An optical-character-recognition apparatus comprising: an operation unit configured to receive an input operation; a display unit configured to visually present information; an optical-character-recognition unit configured to generate second character information by subjecting image information stored in a readable manner to optical-character recognition, determine a matching rate for each character in the second character information, the matching rate indicating the extent to which each character matches a corresponding stored reference character, calculate an average matching rate by averaging the matching rates for all characters in the second character information, and generate first character information by adding additional information to the second character information, the additional information based on the average matching rate; a sound-conversion unit configured to generate sound information based on the first character information; a sound-output unit configured to output sound based on the sound information; and a control unit configured to control the operation unit, the display unit, the optical-character-recognition unit, the sound-conversion unit, and the sound-output unit.