OCR result optimization based on pattern matching

Junqing Shang; Changsong Liu; Xiaoqing Ding

doi:10.1117/12.702786

29 January 2007 OCR result optimization based on pattern matching

Junqing Shang, Changsong Liu, Xiaoqing Ding

Proceedings Volume 6500, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV; 650009 (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702786
Event: Electronic Imaging 2007, 2007, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Post-processing of OCR is a bottleneck of the document image processing system. Proof reading is necessary since the current recognition rate is not enough for publishing. The OCR system provides every recognition result with a confident or unconfident label. People only need to check unconfident characters while the error rate of confident characters is low enough for publishing. However, the current algorithm marks too many unconfident characters, so optimization of OCR results is required. In this paper we propose an algorithm based on pattern matching to decrease the number of unconfident results. If an unconfident character matches a confident character well, its label could be changed into a confident one. Pattern matching makes use of original character images, so it could reduce the problem caused by image normalization and scanned noises. We introduce WXOR, WAN, and four-corner based pattern matching to improve the effect of matching, and introduce confidence analysis to reduce the errors of similar characters. Experimental results show that our algorithm achieves improvements of 54.18% in the first image set that contains 102,417 Chinese characters, and 49.85% in the second image set that contains 53,778 Chinese characters.

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Junqing Shang, Changsong Liu, and Xiaoqing Ding "OCR result optimization based on pattern matching", Proc. SPIE 6500, Document Recognition and Retrieval XIV, 650009 (29 January 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.702786

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