Fujitsu Corporation

Yasutaka Machida

Satoshi Naoi

Shinichi Eguchi

Yutaka Katsumata

Koichi Chiba

Katsutoshi Kobara

Eiichi Watanabe

Hideo Kamata

Kazunori Yamamoto

Hideyuki Inaoka

Tomohiro Matsuhashi

Hideki Matsuno

Yoshihiro Nagano

Shunji Sakane

Yoshiyuki Kijima

Kazuhide Ushita

Kazuhito Watanabe

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

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Maebashi, Japan

Yasutaka Machida