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Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2008

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2004
Applicants:

Kouichi Kanamoto, Inagi, JP;

Yutaka Katsumata, Inagi, JP;

Shinichi Eguchi, Inagi, JP;

Inventors:

Kouichi Kanamoto, Inagi, JP;

Yutaka Katsumata, Inagi, JP;

Shinichi Eguchi, Inagi, JP;

Assignees:

Fujitsu Limited, Kawasaki, JP;

Fujitsu Frontech Limited, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention is a character recognition apparatus, which comprises a background discriminating section, a non-character line discriminating section, a first non-character line removed image creating section that creates a first non-character line removed image, which is an original image from which the non-character line is removed, a first character area discriminating section, an enlarged image creating section, a second non-character line removed image creating section, an interference judgment section that judges whether or not the character and the non-character line interfere with each other in the original image, a character image restoring section that restores the character image, a second character area discriminating section, and a character recognizing section that digitizes the character area recognized by the second character area discriminating section and recognizes the character, thereby characters written on a color form are recognized at a high accuracy.


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