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A miniature computer menu picture; clicking on it activates an optical character recognition program.

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I am now reading Canon CanoScan Lide 110 = Quick Start Guide. And am slowiy getting on to this

From: Richard & Betty Dole *
Subject: how to scan and save the file in Jpeg/tiff/bmp and open the scnned image in an OCR
Date: March 24, 2012 5:03:01 PM PDT

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Actually, there are two basic types of core OCR algorithm, which may produce a ranked list of candidate characters.
Matrix matching involves comparing an image to a stored glyph on a pixel-by-pixel basis; it is also known as "pattern matching" or "pattern recognition". This relies on the input glyph being correctly isolated from the rest of the image, and on the stored glyph being in a similar font and at the same scale. This technique works best with typewritten text and does not work well when new fonts are encountered. This is the technique the early physical photocell-based OCR implemented, rather directly.
Feature extraction decomposes glyphs into "features" like lines, closed loops, line direction, and line intersections. These are compared with an abstract vector-like representation of a character, which might reduce to one or more glyph prototypes. General techniques of feature detection in computer vision are applicable to this type of OCR, which is commonly seen in "intelligent" handwriting recognition and indeed most modern OCR software. Nearest neighbour classifiers such as the k-nearest neighbors algorithm are used to compare image features with stored glyph features and choose the nearest match.
Software such as Cuneiform and Tesseract use a two-pass approach to character recognition. The second pass is known as "adaptive recognition" and uses the letter shapes recognized with high confidence on the first pass to better recognize the remaining letters on the second pass. This is advantageous for unusual fonts or low-quality scans where the font is distorted (e.g. blurred or faded).You can refer to some professional OCR SDKs for help. And you'd better try its free trial package first then choose one whose way of processing is simple and fast. It can save a lot of time for you. I hope you success. Good luck.

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Arron