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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2007
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2002
Applicants:
Rodney G. Moon, Charlotte, NC (US);
Ravi Prakash, Concord, NC (US);
Inventors:
Rodney G. Moon, Charlotte, NC (US);
Ravi Prakash, Concord, NC (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01); G06K 7/08 (2006.01); G06Q 40/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A character recognition system and method. The system comprises an (OCR) optical character reader system for collecting character data by electro-optically scanning printed characters; a conversion system for converting the character data to a Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) format; and a recognition engine for interpreting the converted character data using a MICR algorithm.