Optical Character Recognition Systems for Different Languages with Soft Computing by Arindam Chaudhuri Krupa Mandaviya Pratixa Badelia & Soumya K. Ghosh

Author:Arindam Chaudhuri, Krupa Mandaviya, Pratixa Badelia & Soumya K. Ghosh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Keywords

French language OCRRFMLPFSVMFRSVMHFBRNN

5.1 Introduction

In the present business scenario, several optical character recognition (OCR) systems have been developed for French language [7, 18]. French is the most widely spoken language across the globe [25] after English and Chinese. As a result of this, the development of OCR systems for French language occupy a significant place in pattern recognition [1]. French language OCR systems have been used successfully in a wide array of commercial applications [7]. The character recognition of French language has a high potential in data and word processing as the English language. Some commonly used applications of the OCR systems of French language [7] are automated postal address and ZIP code reading, data acquisition in bank checks, processing of archived institutional records etc.

The standardization of OCR character set for French language was provided through ISO/IEC 8859 [25] as shown in Fig. 5.1. ISO/IEC 8859 is a joint ISO and IEC series of standards for 8-bit character encodings. The series of standards consists of numbered parts such as ISO/IEC 8859-1, ISO/IEC 8859-2 etc. There are 15 parts excluding the abandoned ISO/IEC 8859-12. ISO/IEC 8859 parts 1, 2, 3, and 4 were originally Ecma International standard ECMA-94. In the recent years, OCR for French language has gained a considerable momentum as the need for converting the scanned images into computer recognizable formats such as text documents has variety of applications. The French language based OCR systems is thus one of the most fascinating and challenging areas of pattern recognition with various practical applications [7].

Fig. 5.1ISO/IEC 8859 font

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