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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2016
Filed:
May. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Suguru Nakaso, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
FUJI XEROX CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00402 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01);
Abstract
A character recognition apparatus includes an extracting unit that extracts a numerical value reading region in which a numerical value that is a character string of a numeral is read from an image that is a character recognition target, a character recognizing unit that performs character recognition on the extracted numerical value reading region and obtains plural recognition candidates for each numerical value, and a selecting unit that selects a potential candidate from the plural recognition candidates on the basis of a numerical value range set for each numerical value reading region.