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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 1989
Filed:
Mar. 18, 1987
Hikoshi Nagasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuo Ito, Tokyo, JP;
Shigeru Horii, Tokyo, JP;
Katsuhide Tanoshima, Tokyo, JP;
Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An optical character reader apparatus is provided to optically read characters written on a document card to extract as a word a character group compared with previously registered words. Such a word is compared for each character constituting that word. When the number of constituent characters constituting the extracted word is greater than a prescribed number, a judgement is made as to whether or not each constituent character is a vowel, and, if so, is removed and, if otherwise, subsequently compared with respect to characters other than vowels. As a result, a word which is found to have the largest number of coincident characters to previously registered words, is selected as a candidate word and delivered as the word read from the document card.