Text Recognition in Street Level Images
T H Manoj, A. Santha Rubia · 2013
Abstract — Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic conversion of scanned images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text. Segmentation of text in images is main step in OCR. Segmentation is the process of partitioning a digital image into multiple segments (sets of pixels). The goal of segmentation is to simplify and/or change the representation of an image into something that is more meaningful and easier to analyze. Text segmentation in image is typically used to locate text region for further processing. In this paper, a novel method is proposed to location of text and normalized cross correlation based template matching to recognize characters in image.