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Optical Character Recognition for Images and Video Frames: A Survey

Author(s):

Vineetha Pais , AJ INSTITUTE OF ENGG & TECHNOLOGY

Keywords:

OCR; Tesseract; ABBYY Mobile; ICR

Abstract

This paper is a literature review on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Images and Videos, it mainly focuses on the basics of OCR, its related work, applications and different techniques. Nowadays optical character recognition has gained lot of attention due to its enormous usage in the modern handheld devices like smart phones. Recognizing patterns are very well done by the human beings but for computers it’s a difficult task. Hence patterns or rules need to be deduced from various samples. Usually OCR systems include steps like scanning the image or video frame, text localization, segmentation of characters, Feature Extraction, classification, Recognition. There are various OCR engines available like Tesseract, ABBYY mobile OCR engine. OCR systems not only recognize printed and handwritten English texts but also in kannada, Malayalam, Arabic and other languages.

Other Details

Paper ID: IJSRDV6I10592
Published in: Volume : 6, Issue : 1
Publication Date: 01/04/2018
Page(s): 813-816

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