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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 24, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2018
Konica Minolta Laboratory U.s.a., Inc., San Mateo, CA (US);
Saman Sarraf, Belmont, CA (US);
KONICA MINOLTA LABORATORY U.S.A., INC., San Mateo, CA (US);
Abstract
In an intelligent character recognition (ICR) method for recognizing hand-written text images using a long-short term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN), text images are segmented into text line images, and the text lines images are pre-processed to normalize the line height and to equalize the word spacings in each text line. Both training images used to train the RNN network and test images containing text to be recognized by the trained RNN network are pre-processed to have identical heights and identical word spacings between words. This method improves character recognition accuracy.