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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 12, 1993
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Characters are recognized by a conventional OCR apparatus and converted into outline font form. The system includes a recognition device for optically reading printed characters and recognizing those to obtain information on the recognized characters consisting of text code information and character layout information, an outline font table for retaining outline font data of characters, a character box enlarging function for enlarging enclosing rectangles of the recognized characters obtained by the recognition device by a ratio of an outline font character box to a black pixel component to be drawn in the character box while referring to the outline font table, and modifying the information on the recognized characters by using the enlarged enclosing rectangles as new character boxes of the outline font.