• IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.51-60
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• 2020

Optical character recognition (OCR) has been studied for decades because it is very useful in a variety of places. Nowadays, OCR's performance has improved significantly due to outstanding deep learning technology. Thus, there is an increasing demand for commercial-grade but affordable OCR systems. We have developed a low-cost, high-performance OCR system for the industry with the cheapest embedded developer kit that supports GPU acceleration. To achieve high accuracy for industrial use on limited computing resources, we chose a state-of-the-art text recognition algorithm that uses an end-to-end deep learning network as a baseline model. The model was then improved by replacing the feature extraction network with the best one suited to our conditions. Among the various candidate networks, EfficientNet-B3 has shown the best performance: excellent recognition accuracy with relatively low memory consumption. Besides, we have optimized the model written in TensorFlow's Python API using TensorFlow-TensorRT integration and TensorFlow's C++ API, respectively.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.523-529
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• 2021

In the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, technological changes are being applied in various fields. Automation digitization and data management are also in the field of bills. There are more than tens of thousands of forms of bills circulating in society and bill recognition is essential for automation, digitization and data management. Currently in order to manage various bills, OCR technology is used for character recognition. In this time, we can increase the accuracy, when firstly recognize the form of the bill and secondly recognize bills. In this paper, a logo that can be used as an index to classify the form of the bill was recognized as an object. At this time, since the size of the logo is smaller than that of the entire bill, FPN was used for Small Object Detection among deep learning technologies. As a result, it was possible to reduce resource waste and increase the accuracy of OCR recognition through the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.101-108
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• 2024

AI-OCR (Artificial Intelligence Optical Character Recognition) combines OCR technology with Artificial Intelligence to overcome limitations that required human intervention. To enhance the performance of AI-OCR, training on diverse data sets is essential. However, the recognition rate declines when image colors have similar brightness levels. To solve this issue, this study employs Homomorphic filtering as a preprocessing step to clearly differentiate color levels, thereby increasing text recognition rates. While Homomorphic filtering is ideal for text extraction because of its ability to adjust the high and low frequency components of an image separately using a gamma value, it has the downside of requiring manual adjustments to the gamma value. This research proposes a range for gamma threshold values based on tests involving image contrast, brightness, and entropy. Experimental results using the proposed range of gamma values in Homomorphic filtering suggest a high likelihood for effective AI-OCR performance.

• Journal of the Korean Graphic Arts Communication Society
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.41-57
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• 1988

Recently, it Is required to develop OCR(Optical Character Reader) along with the progress of the information processing system for Hangeul. Characters have to be recognized clearly so that OCR can be applied, Structure analysis method and lump method are used for the recognition of characters, and OCR is now available for the recognition of printed characters and handwritten alphanumeric characters having simple structure by them However, It is known that there should be much more study on the development of handwritten Hangout's OCR. This paper proposed a new method for the handwritten Hangout character recognition. The units of Initial consonant of Hangout are separated and then recognized from the utilization of the position- Information of Hangeul's units from the normalized patterns using the regression line theory. It is carried out for the extraction of the block which exists in the virtual Initial consonant region from the normalized input patterns and the calculation on maximum value (${\beta}$) of likelihood after comparing the features of separated subpattern with the initial consonant dictionary.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04b
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• pp.544-546
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• 2001

이 논문은 OCR(Optical Character Reader)로 인식된 한글 문서에서의 오인식 경향을 분석하고, 이를 이용한 한글 단어 검색 방법을 제안한다. OCR로 인식된 많은 야의 한글 문서를 기반으로 자모별 인식 빈도수를 계산하고 이를 바탕으로 초성, 중성, 중성별 인식 혼동 행렬(confusion matrix)을 구성하였다. 또한 인식 정보를 적절히 이용하기 Bayes 정리를 이용하였다. 질의어에 대한 오인식 단어의 검색 방법을 제시하고 혼동 행렬과 이 검색 방법을 바탕으로 OCR 기반 단어 검색 시스템을 구축하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.131-164
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• 1992

In this study. a technical report management system using optical technology is described in detail. This management system is designed for both bibliographic (character) and full-text (image) information. Several optical filing systems already on the Korean market are scrutinized and compared with standard functions in order to build a more efficient management system for technical reports which can be easily integrated into existing KRISS library automation system. For that purpose, up-to-date technologies (i.e., digital image PI-ocessing (DIP), MARC standards, and optical character recognition (OCR), etc.) are applied to this system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.31B no.6
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• pp.10-16
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• 1994

In case of off-line character recognition with statistical method, the character recognition speed for Korean or Chinese characters is slow since the amount of calculation is huge. To improve this problem, we seperate the recognition steps into several functional stages and implement them with hardwares for each stage so that all the stages can be processed with pipline structure. In accordance with temporal parallel processing, a high speed character recognition system can be implemented. In this paper, we implement a classification hardware, which is one of the several functional stages, to improve the speed by parallel structure with multiple DSPs(Digital Signal Processors). Also, it is designed to be able to expand DSP boards in parallel to make processing faster as much as we wish. We implement the hardware as an add-on board in IBM-PC, and the result of experiment is that it can process about 47-times and 71-times faster with 2 DSPs and 3 DSPs respectively than the IBM-PC(486D$\times$2-66MHz). The effectiveness is proved by developing a high speed OCR(Optical Character Recognizer).

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.10a
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• pp.530-532
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• 2019

제안하는 서비스는 OCR(Optical Character Recognition, 광학문자인식)과 딥러닝 패턴분석 알고리즘을 활용하여 문서를 효율적으로 관리하는 서비스로 필기를 많이 하는 사용자를 위한 기능을 제공한다. 최근 다양한 분야에서의 머신러닝 기반의 OCR의 활용이 증가했지만 기존의 애플리케이션은 패턴 분석 알고리즘과 통계 기반의 OCR을 혼합하여 사용하기 때문에 필기체에 대한 인식률이 높지 않다. 이에 본 논문에서는 OCR과 패턴분석 알고리즘을 활용하여 필기체에 대한 높은 인식률을 제공하는 서비스를 제안한다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.21-25
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• 2004

This paper presents a typographical analyses and classes. Typographical analysis is an indispensable tool for machine-printed character recognition in English. This analysis is a preliminary step for character segmentation in OCR. This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, word typographical classes from words are defined by the word typographical analysis. In the second part, character typographical classes from connected components are defined by the character typographical analysis. The character typographical classes are used in the character segmentation.

• International Journal of Contents
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.83-93
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel method that automatically generates real character images to familiarize existing OCR systems with new fonts. At first, we generate synthetic character images using a simple degradation model. The synthetic data is used to train an OCR engine, and the trained OCR is used to recognize and label real character images that are segmented from ideal document images. Since the OCR engine is unable to recognize accurately all real character images, a substring matching method is employed to fix wrongly labeled characters by comparing two strings; one is the string grouped by recognized characters in an ideal document image, and the other is the ordered string of characters which we are considering to train and recognize. Based on our method, we build a system that automatically generates 2350 most common Korean and 117 alphanumeric characters from new fonts. The ideal document images used in the system are postal envelope images with characters printed in ascending order of their codes. The proposed system achieved a labeling accuracy of 99%. Therefore, we believe that our system is effective in facilitating the generation of numerous character samples to enhance the recognition rate of existing OCR systems for fonts that have never been trained.