Fujitsu Corporation

Hideki Matsuno

Shinichi Eguchi

Koichi Chiba

Katsutoshi Kobara

Yoshihiro Nagano

Yutaka Katsumata

Satoshi Naoi

Eiichi Watanabe

Hideo Kamata

Kazunori Yamamoto

Hideyuki Inaoka

Tomohiro Matsuhashi

Shunji Sakane

Kazuhide Ushita

Kazuhito Watanabe

Yoshiyuki Kijima

Yasutaka Machida

Yoshinori Yamazaki

A data medium handling apparatus and a data medium handling method suitable for use for handling of documents, for example, in a financial organ. The data medium handling apparatus ( ) for recognizing, based on an image ( ) read from a data medium on which information is described in an arbitrary format, the information, is constructed such that it comprises means ( ) for extracting characteristics unique to the data medium including the format from the read image data ( ) and specifying, from the characteristics, a position at which information to be recognized is present, and image recognition means ( ) for recognizing the image ( ) at the position specified by the is preceding means ( ) to discriminate the information, so that the data medium handling apparatus ( ) can handle documents having various formats such as private slips.

Data medium handling apparatus medium handling method

Characters of data on a document are recognized by automatically determining the definitions of characters of the data from the arrangement of character strings of the data. Character strings on the document are extracted by reading the document, and headers and data on the document are distinguished from each other by determining the positional relationship between the character strings. Character attributes of the data are determined by recognizing characters of the character strings of the headers using a header recognition dictionary. Characters of the character strings of the data are recognized according to the determined character attributes of the data. Since character attributes of the data are determined from recognized characters of the headers after the headers and the data are distinguished from each other from the layout on the document, it is possible to enter automatically the character attributes of the data.

Method of recognizing characters

A character recognition apparatus, in which a type of each of accounts, a type of each of marks, and characteristic data indicating a string of characters recognized when any of the marks is written in each account are previously registered for each group of the types of accounts in correlation to each other in an account-type database; a mark is estimated according to a result of verification between the account-type database and a result of ordinary character recognition according to a character recognizing program; and a type of account having the estimated mark is determined as a selected account name according to a result of recognizing characters in accounts other than the account having the mark.

Method and apparatus for character recognition, and computer-readable recording medium with a program making a computer execute the method recorded therein

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Hideki Matsuno